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Butanding! by Iloilo Views on Apr 14, 2010“WHEN I SAY JUMP,” OUR SMILING BUTANDING Interaction Officer (BIO) named Recto said to the five of us, “you jump into the water. Do not hesitate. Forget everything and jump. And when I say, look down, look down.” He presumed no one was faint...

‘More compelling than elections’ by Iloilo Views on Mar 31, 2010EVEN WHILE MANY ELECTED GOVERNMENT officials and bureaucrats are preoccupied with the coming elections, there are agencies and local governments units (LGUs) that have been or are silently going through a process of transformation. And their best eff...

Hildegarde and the ‘Goddess at Sunrise’ by Iloilo Views on Mar 11, 2010UNTYPICAL AND MYTH-SHATTERING BUT beautiful is the trophy that noted sculptor Agnes Arellano created for the Hildegarde Award for Women in Media and Communication. This award is conferred yearly during Women’s Month by the Mass Communication Depart...

The morning after: Malacañang 1986 by Iloilo Views on Feb 25, 2010ONE OF MY FIRST ASSIGNMENTS AS A STAFF writer of the Sunday Inquirer Magazine (first published in March 1986, right after the Edsa People Power Revolution) was to check out Malacañang Palace and do a morning-after story. I also had to fly to Leyte t...

The vote of the poor by Iloilo Views on Feb 11, 2010IT’S THEIR SEASON ONCE AGAIN. THE POOR of this nation rule. Elections have a way of smoking them out of the woodwork, the cracks and crevices they inhabit. They are wooed, romanced if you like, as if candidates discovered them and fell in love with...

Senior citizens ask for so little by Iloilo Views on Feb 3, 2010Let me repeat what I wrote in this space many months ago (“Pension now for poor older people” 3/19/09) in relation to poor Filipino senior citizens: The Philippines is the only country in Asia that has no social pension for poor, older people. I...

When 5,000 priests gather by Iloilo Views on Jan 28, 2010STARTING MONDAY AND UNTIL TOMORROW, Friday, some 5,000 Catholic priests, both diocesan and religious, from all over the Philippines are closeted at the World Trade Center (WTC) in Pasay City for the Second National Congress of the Clergy (NCC II). Th...

Lay faithful’s letter to bishops, priests, religious by Iloilo Views on Jan 14, 2010A GROUP OF FILIPINO LAY CATHOLICS are preparing for the scheduled “Discernment on the Prophetic Calling of the Lay Faithful in Philippine Society” in February 2010. A prelude to that gathering is a letter they (I, among them) have written and add...

Can heaven and nature sing? by Iloilo Views on Dec 24, 2009HAVE a quiet and truly meaningful celebration of Christmas. And please pause and remember those who cannot celebrate because they are in deep pain and sorrow. On Wednesday, two days before Christmas Day, journalists led a nationwide candle vigil for...

Global editorial on climate change by Iloilo Views on Dec 17, 2009Last week, one day before the Copenhagen summit (Dec. 7-18) on climate change opened, 56 major newspapers in 45 countries spoke with one voice. They came out with a common global editorial written in 20 languages on climate change. I was hoping that...