ICI: When resignations speak loudest, 1
IN PUBLIC life, silence can matter more than any press conference. When people quietly leave an institution meant to stand firm, something lingers.
The...
What we choose to believe at the start of the year
EVERY New Year, Ilonggo homes transform into quiet stages of hope. Tables are laid out with round fruits, coins are tucked beneath bowls of...
Our daily work should be an expression of love
WHEN Christ told his disciples that the Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind,...
2026, a more intense version of 2025
LAST WEEK, I wrote that “(2025) marks a threshold of a sort, one that could ripple for years to come.” I believe 2026 will...
Singcang: Bacolod’s underworld?
LET ME start the year by tackling an uncomfortable mix of topics — shabu, crime, basura, and politics — a four-in-one problem concentrated in...
Corruption in their hearts
“GREED is in their hearts” are words that transformed the classic Jose Mari Chan yuletide song “Christmas in Our Hearts” into an anti-corruption piece by the University...
There’s always a first time: Christmas day at the police station
ON CHRISTMAS day while driving towards Valencia, Bohol, to spend Christmas with the Balagot-Maestrado family, we spent considerable time instead at the Loay Police...
When corruption steals Christmas
THE STREETS glow with parols, the smell of bibingka lingers by churchyards, and jeepneys crawl through flood-stained roads with cellophane stars taped to their...
