A good read: ‘The COVID-19 catastrophe’

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 03/24/2023

March 2020 was when the government placed the Philippines under near-total lockdown. The COVID-19 virus had landed. But we had no idea what was down the road and how, if there would be a pandemic, it would…

Flashback: ‘Bahay na Pula’

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 03/17/2023

In the news again are clamors for the belated compensation and apologies due to Filipino comfort women/sex slaves, now aging and fewer in number, who suffered at the hands of the Japanese military in World War II.…

Scrollback: ‘Ein Papst aus Deutschland’

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 01/06/2023

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger, German) died on Dec. 31, 2022 at the age of 95 and was laid to rest yesterday amid solemn rites at the Vatican City. As we all know, he resigned from…

‘Christmask’ and other thoughts

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 12/16/2022

It has been all of three years. How time moved exceedingly slow during the three years of the COVID-19 pandemic that the world went through, that you and I endured and survived, but which millions did not.…

Murder, she wrote

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 11/04/2022

The unfolding of new information on the Oct. 3 murder of broadcaster and vlogger Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa of the “Lapid Fire” radio program reads like a classic whodunit. There was the surrender and confession on Oct.…

70 Cordillera youth tell their stories

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 10/28/2022

You help send us to college each time you buy our products.”—Cordillera youth Those words are on the caps of the jam, jelly, and marmalade jars sold (sold out, sometimes) at the Religious of the Good Shepherd…

The longest-held hostage

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 10/14/2022

Let me get this out before all else: Hear ye! While I do not wish it, a curse may befall those who intentionally delay the legal processes to block the release of former senator Leila de Lima…

Journalists as endangered species

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 10/07/2022

A most profound question one writer asked a revolutionary fighter, who survived the battle of his life, was not how bloody difficult it was or how he won the battle. It was: “Were you afraid?” Were you…

Reinventing teaching of reading and writing

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 09/09/2022

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.” (Anonymous) National Teachers’ Month began on Monday, Sept. 5, and ends on Oct. 5, which is National Teachers’ Day and World Teachers’ Day. Those directly connected to…

Salt in our tears and other thoughts

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 09/02/2022

Pan de sal, the Filipino breakfast and merienda staple—with palaman or without—was the first to pop up in my mind. (Sal is Spanish for salt.) Next was the biblical saying on becoming “the salt of the earth”…

Deadly hatemongering

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 07/29/2022

Hate begets hate, and hatemongering further fuels one’s own hate until it becomes deadly and is consummated in a bloody carnage. Hatemongering is defined as stirring up feelings of hatred by inflammatory speech or writing. These feelings…

It was a disaster waiting to happen

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 05/27/2022

Inquirer’s banner story two days ago: “Court finds Marcopper liable for 1993 disaster.” Yes, after all hell broke loose in Marinduque 28 years and five months ago and after a 21-year legal battle. The 30-plus plaintiffs, the…

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