Celebrations of mangoes: ‘There is always light in even the darkest times’

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 05/30/2023

Songs of Rivermaya like “Liwanag Sa Dilim” reverberated before a huge crowd at the municipal grounds of Jordan, Guimaras as the highlight of this year’s Manggahan festival. With its  English translation “there is always light in even…

When rules defy reason

Cielito F. Habito - @inquirerdotnet 05/30/2023

The most frustrating thing about dealing with government is when rules are so unreasonable that it feels like the only reason that they’re there is to deliberately make things harder for all of us. Often they defy…

‘Think thank’     

Fatima Ignacio Gimenez - @inquirerdotnet 05/29/2023

When I grow up … Do you remember how old you were when this question was first asked about what you wanted to become? I was 5 years old when I said I wanted to be a…

The Holy Spirit in us

Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD - @inquirerdotnet 05/28/2023

The story is told about a little boy who wanted to bring inside the house his new bike, but his mother said “no,” telling him that the Holy Spirit will be watching his bike outside, so no…

Which way will poverty go?

Mahar Mangahas - @inquirerdotnet 05/27/2023

In 2023Q1, the national percentage of Self-Rated Poor households was 51, unchanged from 2022Q4. Last year, it had been 43 in Q1, 48 in Q2, and 49 in Q3. The halt in the rise of general poverty…

Revolutionary ads

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 05/26/2023

To my knowledge, no library in the Philippines or abroad has a complete set of newspapers that were published between the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution in 1896 and the Philippine-American War in 1899. If we had…

Watermelons

Joel Ruiz Butuyan - @inquirerdotnet 05/25/2023

They’re the most ubiquitous fruits on roadside stands this summer. And with the unbearable and record heat we’re experiencing, for sure, many travelers succumb to the succulent seduction of one of the biggest fruits cultivated and consumed…

Mabini up close

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 05/24/2023

Apolinario Mabini died in his brother’s home in Nagtahan in 1903. The wooden house with a nipa roof, now a national shrine, has been moved a number of times. First, from one bank of the Pasig to…

Congratulatory tarps for new lawyers Marawi as the City of Streamers

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 05/23/2023

MARAWI City — After the release of the results of the 2022 bar examinations, Marawi City will again be flooded with huge congratulatory tarpaulins for its new lawyers. When I visited Marawi last February, I was really…

Can big business be inclusive?

Cielito F. Habito - @inquirerdotnet 05/23/2023

Are our big business conglomerates widening the gap between rich and poor Filipinos? While big business empires in rich countries seem to have fostered growing economic concentration and widened inequality, the outcome need not be inevitable. But…

Heat action plans: We need them NOW

Eleanor Pinugu - @inquirerdotnet 05/22/2023

There is a funny meme being passed around which shows a revised version of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Instead of food and water, a new level was added to the bottom labeled “AIRCON”—suggesting that it is now…

Until the very end

Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD - @inquirerdotnet 05/21/2023

The story is told about two sisters who had a deep and long quarrel. When the old one got very sick, the younger one visited her, and they embraced each other in peace and reconciliation. A happy…

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