Human Face

Trash slide tragedies, 2000 and 2026

In Cebu City on Jan. 8, a garbage slide killed 22 people and left 18…

Land of beauty queens under siege

Scratch your head if this sounds like a forced oxymoronic juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated realities:…

2025: 67 journos killed, 503 detained, 135 missing

How is it that, year after year, so many journalists meet such tragic fates? We…

A whodunit before Christmas

Because of the long Christmas holidays, we have early deadlines, so by the time this…

There’s more where they came from

The Christmas rush is on—I call it “Krismess”—and most everybody is on overdrive. One can…

 P13.195-M SSS tissue issue 

This one is for newspaper humorists whom I wish I could sometimes be, for jokesters,…

PH tops in ocean plastic trash

I am momentarily turning my gaze from the exchanges among political know-it-alls to something so…

Women, terrorism’s first targets

On the eve of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW),…

‘Umido,’ dud after dud after dud

In Iloilo where I grew up, umido is how we describe a lighted firecracker (rebentador…

BBM’s battle for political survival  

A movement calling itself the United People’s Initiative is mobilizing for a three-day mass action…