Unforgettable was that time at the start of the pandemic in March 2020 when the government abruptly announced a lockdown in Metro Manila, resulting in untold numbers of people milling in the streets, unable to get to their workplaces, and taxi drivers, among others, bewildered at being pulled over and threatened with arrest by cops, unaware that an order had come down banning public transport operations. In the tumult two figures stood out, their images capturing
He was already in his 70s when I got to know him over the last decade and a half of his life, which came to an end at the age of 90 last Jan. 13. Trim and tall, he kept that gangly bearing and bemused expression that strongly hinted at what must have been a swashbuckling early life. He was a shrewd and generous man of great energy and determination. He lived most of his life in Britain and America but his earliest years and maternal roots were here. Like all families of desaparecidos, sooner or later his life returned to
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