Luigi favors Marcos burial at Libingan ng mga Bayani

08/15/2016

MANDAUE City Mayor Gabriel Luis “Luigi” Quisumbing said he favors President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to allow the burial of the late president Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan Ng Mga Bayani. “Importante gyod kaayo nga (It’s important that)…

Marcos is not a hero – protesters

08/15/2016

Protesters on Sunday denounced President Duterte’s decision to allow the burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani, saying it trampled upon history and betrayed the memory of those slain during the…

Militants, civil society groups protest against govt’s Marcos burial plans

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/14/2016

AS a 15-year-old student activist in 1969, Wilfredo Naga kept busy joining small pickets and rallies in Fuente Osmeña, Colon and Plaza Independencia in Cebu City to advocate for educational reform. About 47 years later, he was…

Groups protest Marcos burial at Libingan ng Mga Bayani

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/14/2016

CEBU CITY—At least 50 people from 19 different organizations converged at the Plaza Independencia in downtown Cebu City on Sunday morning to demonstrate their opposition to the plan to bury the late Dictator Ferdinand Marcos at Libingan…

Canonizing a crook

Jason A. Baguia 08/12/2016

In the first installment of Peter Jackson’s motion picture rendition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” the voice of the character Galadriel that actress Cate Blanchett played introduces viewers to Middle Earth, describing it as…

Militants insist Marcos not a hero

07/24/2016

MILITANT groups yesterday urged Pres. Rodrigo Duterte to reconsider his plan on allowing former president Ferdinand Marcos to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. The groups, led by Akbayan, donned Filipino superhero costumes as they…

Anti-Marcos leader gets online death threat

06/19/2016

Heated exchanges in social media arising from political developments continue to turn nasty and further divide Filipinos. Zena Bernardo Bernardo, one of the leaders of an online community group opposing President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement on the impending…

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