MY LIFE AS ART | I mean, I’m in!  

BY PETER SOLIS NERY Monday, April 17, 2017   ON MARCH 21, 2017, Choose Philippines, www.choosephilippines.com, “a movement and website promoting everything great about our country, from...

EDITORIAL | Leaving nothing but footprints

Sunday, April 16, 2017 WADING in seawater to beat the summer heat in fun and merriment tend to end up messy in many beaches. The...

BENEATH & BEYOND | Sarin in Syria

BY SONIA D. DAQUILA Sunday, April 16, 2017     DID YOU ever spray pesticide to cockroaches, flies or rats, and watch them twitching and instantly dying or...

Boy, 11, drowns on Good Friday

BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO Sunday, April 16, 2017     ILOILO City – An 11-year-old boy drowned in the river of Barangay Dapitan, Pototan, Iloilo on Good Friday. Christian...

EDITORIAL | Let’s pain the Holy Week green

Thursday, April 13, 2017   AS CHRISTIAN Filipinos observe the time-honored tradition of Semana Santa (Holy Week), we plead for a more austere celebration that will not...

PEOPLE POWWOW | Holy Week introspection

BY HERBERT VEGO Thursday, April 13, 2017 NO WONDER your hard-hitting broadcaster has spoken no evil this week.  It’s Holy Week – the only week...

NO FILTER | Alternative Malacañang

BY RHICK LARS VLADIMERALBAY Thursday, April 13, 2017 (Continued from April 11, 2017)   THE PALACE should have expected that sooner or later this would happen. With its ambivalence...

BORDERLESS | Reflections

BY RHODA GARZON CAMPILLAN Thursday, April 13, 2017 IN EVERY year, we are given a few days to reflect and get in touch with ourselves. This...

RAMBLINGS OF THE UNMARRIED | Ring back

BY GORDON Q. GUILLERGAN Thursday, April 13, 2017 “If you want to pay me back one day, that’s up to you. I’m not asking for it,...

FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY | Financial inclusion

BY IKE SEÑERES Thursday, April 13, 2017   FOR ALL intents and purposes, financial inclusion is really just a synonym of poverty reduction, because one is really...