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Today is Valentine’s Day, and what an irony that it coincides with the Catholic feast of Ash Wednesday, which ushers in the Lenten season. Commentators make much of the irony that today is also, in the Catholic…
Killing time in a mall, I saw a group of young office-goers clumped together by the steps of an open-air plaza. They were all gazing upward, some holding up their cellphones, while others were pointing at something…
For the last few years, we’ve celebrated a relatively “quiet” New Year’s Eve. Where before we used to spend P1,000 or so on fireworks — from harmless luces (or hand-held flares) to turumpo (or wheeled mini-flares nailed…
We face serious problems as a nation: the continuing spate of drug-related (or so authorities say) killings; the threatened impeachment of the heads (all women) of all the independent bodies created to check presidential abuse (and the…
The hottest controversy on the local health (and political) front these days involves the suspended dengue vaccination program. The program was suspended after Sanofi Pasteur, the drug manufacturer, released findings that Dengvaxia (the trade name of the…
Coffee has a rich heritage in the Philippines. The first coffee tree was introduced in Lipa, Batangas in the 1740s by Spanish Franciscan monks, and so enthusiastically did farmers take up the challenge that the province soon…
Who would have thought that “tokhang,” albeit in a sanitized, glossy depiction typical of Hollywood, would suddenly show up in a spy flick that aspires to comedy but ends up in lameness? “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” opens…
That the raid on the residence of Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog resulted in the deaths of 15 people is shocking enough. The dead include Parojinog himself, his wife Susan, brother Octavio and 12 others, some of…
A comfortable life for all” was the theme set for yesterday’s State of the Nation Address, the second for President Duterte. The theme hinted at the accomplishments of the administration in the year since Mr. Duterte took…
Last weekend a group of women turned over the second batch of “dignity kits” to Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial intended for the women of Marawi. These women fled their beleaguered city where street battles and bombardment are…
Comments on social media have been noting the rather odd confluence of events that has placed people from Mindanao in almost all the important positions in the government: President Duterte, Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, and…
Filipinos my age will surely agree that what we had was a “pro-American” childhood. I went to a Catholic girls’ school run by American nuns, so I suppose the bias is not unexpected. But if learning to…
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