“It’s like being captain ball of a team,” said Sen. Pia Cayetano of her role as an endorser of candidates for tomorrow’s polls. “When you choose your possible teammates, you choose the most capable, most qualified and proven people to join your team. You choose the best.”
The United Nations estimates that in any country, 10 percent of the population is composed of disabled persons—the blind or visually impaired, the deaf or hearing impaired, the physically disabled or wheelchair-bound, and the developmentally or mentally impaired.
The report in yesterday’s (Thursady’s) Inquirer that departing senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson is endorsing “balik-Senate” Jamby Madrigal, and handing over to her the “mantle” of graft-buster in the Senate, reminded me of the lone member of Team PNoy still languishing in the outer margins of the winners’ circle.
A clarification. The results of the “straw vote” held during “Timbangan 2013,” sponsored by the Movement for Good Governance (MGG) with partners Youth Vote Philippines and Mulat Pinoy, were not meant to be an endorsement of the “winning candidates.” Instead, the exercise was meant to promote the use of the MGG’s “scorecard” by voters who [...]
I don’t know what “face” reelectionist Sen. Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes presented before the media gathering “Bulong Pulungan sa Sofitel” yesterday (Tuesday).
Recently, retired Bishop Teodoro Bacani remarked that he was “happy” that senatorial candidate Risa Hontiveros was lagging in the Senate race, remaining outside the “winning circle” even if she is part of “Team PNoy” that is dominating the rankings.
I’ve never been much for running—or for any exercise, for that matter—so frankly, I don’t know what would compel otherwise level-headed folk to get up at sunrise, pull on running shoes, and start jogging around the neighborhood. And when they return, all sweaty, panting and smelling of the sun, I have to wonder what possessed [...]
In A previous column, I made mention of the planned Fifth World Conference of Women (WCW) for 2015, proposed at the United Nations last March 8, International Women’s Day.
Creating quite a sensation, at least within the circles I move in, is the YouTube appearance of a young woman named Sabrina Ongkiko who spoke at a “TEDx” lecture at Ateneo de Manila.
Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, lies on the shores of the Caspian Sea and is a gleaming showcase of the country’s robust oil-based economy. One recent evening, leaving the Yacht Club after our culminating dinner, we glanced up and found a trio of skyscrapers with flames projected on their glass frontages. It was an impressive sight, as with the central area with dun-colored European-style buildings with shops of the best-known designer names, names like Gucci, Armani, Hermes, Prada and others on their ground floors.
Yesterday’s front page carried a story about a “barefoot” councilor—he literally walks around in his bare feet—who, even as he joins his fellow UNA candidates in a political rally in Zamboanga City, stands out for, in the words of reporter Julie Alipala, “looking like he needs alms.”
I was wondering what to write about in this Easter Sunday column when a package arrived from my friend from high school, Marissa Ampil. I remember she had told me she would send over a copy of the book “Sharper than the Sword,” a compilation of Sunday homilies by Fr. James McTavish of the Verbum Dei Missionaries. Thank you, Marissa, for the timely gift and for saving my hide!
