I’m not too sure if Cory is a saint. Cory, with all the glorious underpinnings attached to her, was not sinless.
Chief among them was her silence on the Hacienda Luisita massacre, where more than a dozen farmers (including innocent children) were killed in a brewing labor and land dispute.
On hindsight, as a figure of morality [...]

AT the very least, I can’t fathom why a neophyte city councilor in Iloilo has the audacity to propose a resolution condemning the sex video of actress Katrina Halili and Dr. Hayden Kho that has been circulating in cyberspace for almost two weeks now. (FYI: The resolution was approved unanimously in its regular session last [...]

As a practicing photojournalist and as an officer of the Iloilo chapter of the Press Photographers of the Philippines (PPP), I find the blatant physical harassment of PPP-Aklan chapter president Joe Haresh Tanodra and PPP-Iloilo member Ricky Alejo last Sunday during the highlight of the Dinagyang festival as utterly uncalled for.
I am disgusted with the [...]

OVER the weekend, news broke out that a contractual employee of the Iloilo City Hall filed a sexual harassment complaint against Sr. Insp. Virgilio Buena, a senior police officer of the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO).
The complainant alleged that Sr. Insp. Buena insinuated sexual gestures and indecent proposals. She also claimed that Sr. Insp. Buena [...]

IN the span of less than a month, two events boosted the enthusiasm of the Ilonggo community. Foremost, the groundbreaking ceremony of the 164-megawatt coal-fired power plant, which will surely bring a wave of development not only to Iloilo City, but also to the province and the rest of Panay as cheaper and reliable power [...]

IN THE past two weeks, we’ve been bombarded by the trials and tribulations of heroes, especially of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.
But in the very month when we are supposed to honor heroes, our very own kababayans have been annihilated from the face of this earth by a brewing war in the land of the Moros [...]

LATE in the 90s, there was no Smallville. There was no such thing as “The Ultimate Hangout” for high school, college kids, yuppies, and the rest of the Ilonggo youth of that generation. Hangouts back then would either be the carenderias that surrounded the school, make-shift beer joints nestled in a street corner, or even [...]

I NEVER really thought I’d be standing in the very balcony where Emilio Aguinaldo stood more than a century ago and waved the Philippine flag and proclaimed to the world, albeit the fact that the foreign community chose to ignore, the independence of Indios from Imperial Spain. But I did stand at the very balcony. [...]

ON MAY 9 at 4:32am, I received the following text message:
“Good morning, Ms. Tara. This is Daisy, Bassinette’s cousin. Please visit her anytime today because she’s always calling your name in the middle of the night and early in the morning. That’s why I’m texting you. She can’t text you anymore. She’s very tired. She’s [...]

First of two parts
MORE than a century-and-a-half ago, fotografía is as an alien concept to the archipelagic colony of Spain in the Pacific. Similarly, it is also an alien concept in much of Asia. To some degree, Europe was only beginning to embrace the newfound art technology. After all, the daguerreotype of 1839 was still [...]