It was April 26 when more than a hundred repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) awoke to the news that a fellow balikbayan had hung herself in a stairwell in Room 43. They had been housed under the same lodgings for almost a month—twice the mandatory 14-day period—when the tragedy...
It was past midnight in the Naga City gymnasium, and most of the Lumad, tired from three days of traveling by land and by sea, have retired to sleep inside their malongs. But not Datu Magal. He sits alert and upright, silently watching over his people as they slowly...
Watching the State of the Nation Address (SONA) from the gallery, I witnessed how the nation’s top officials and VIP guests of Pres. Benigno Aquino III reacted to the surprise protest staged by members of the Makabayan bloc after Aquino’s speech. The boos in the...