Rematch on May 10, 2012 in Local News/Opinions Politics The announcement via a live, phoned- in address by Dr. Primo Murillo to the delegates of the 8th Murillo Family Congress in Cagwait town last April 14 of his plan to ran in next year's local polls after more than a decade of absence from lo...
Rehash on May 1, 2012 in Community Life Local News/Opinions The power crisis in Mindanao which has been hugging the headlines in the national news media the past few months has not had (at least not yet) a really major impact on life in Lianga. Despite the horror stories of daily 4 to 8 hour power outag...
Natural High on Apr 24, 2012 in Commentary and Trivia Family Tourism There is something basic and primeval to mountains that appeal to the spiritual in man. Mystics, seekers of inner wisdom and pilgrims searching for enlightenment have throughout human history made their way up the high places of the world where...
The Lianga In My Mind on Apr 2, 2012 in Commentary and Trivia In the past, when life had me spending time away from Lianga for extended periods and life in the city or elsewhere became exceedingly oppressive, I would almost always find some degree of comfort in daydreaming about Lianga. &nbs...
Imposing Or Imposition on Mar 23, 2012 in Commentary and Trivia Community Life Local News/Opinions If the Holy Child Parish Church is the traditional center of religious worship for the majority of Lianga's residents who are Roman Catholics, the new Lianga Market Mall, which is just a stone's throw from that church's main portals, is its new templ...
Waiting on Mar 3, 2012 in Commentary and Trivia Tourism The Bretania Islands of San Agustin are best seen and photographed in their sun drenched glory. When the sun is high and the sky is mostly clear and solid blue, the islands are in their picture postcard loveliest. You can ask the&nbs...
Gold Fever on Mar 2, 2012 in Commentary and Trivia Community Life There was a basic rhythm to what may seem, at first glance, a madness of motion. One man stood waist deep in a trench he had dug out of the wet earth, his upper body flashing up and down as he flung to the side on the ground above him spade...
Tectonic Blues on Feb 23, 2012 in Commentary and Trivia Community Life Local News/Opinions The recent magnitude 6.9 earthquake that hit Negros and Cebu islands in the Visayas and which caused several dozen deaths and extensive infrastructure damage has forced many people here in Lianga to rethink and reevaluate their community's...
Corona's Travails on Feb 8, 2012 in Commentary and Trivia Politics By some misguided sense of intellectual disdain and arrogance, I had automatically assumed that our household would be one among the few in Lianga who would spare the time (when they can) to tune in their television sets on most afternoons to the liv...
Flood Waters on Jan 31, 2012 in Community Life Local News/Opinions If there ever was a clear, consistent memory I have of my childhood days in Lianga, it would have to be of how predictably rainy and stormy were the months of December and January. I can easily recall many instances when my siblings and I would be hu...
