Impunity reigns
Nineteen journalists have been killed for their work in the Philippines since Benigno Aquino III assumed the presidency in 2010. And in 2013 alone, at least 66 instances of threats, physical assaults,...
View ArticleMake ripples
This is not a piece for the suffering Visayan people; it will take long before their power supply is restored. This isn’t meant to criticize the government for its sluggish operation; I doubt this will...
View ArticleTalk and talk
The story is told about a man who lay dying on his hospital bed. All the family members around him were crying, talking, and wailing. He tried desperately to say something but no one could hear him. It...
View ArticleIn reclamation, learn from lahar flows
During the public hearing on the proposed Manila Bay Gold Coast Reclamation Project, recounts Kelvin Rodolfo, the proponents pooh-poohed his contention that, judging from the disastrous storm surge...
View ArticleMajor milestone
The Supreme Court decision banishing the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) and directing “within the bounds of reasonable dispatch” the prosecution of the scammers is a major milestone in...
View ArticleThe looting crowd
In the early hours following the exit of Supertyphoon “Yolanda” from Leyte, residents staggered out of their flattened homes like zombies. But somewhere in downtown Tacloban, a small group of survivors...
View ArticleFrustrated
So this is the way extremely compromised United Nations conferences end: not with a bang but with a demoralizing whimper. The 19th edition of the UN-sponsored climate change negotiations, held in...
View ArticleYolanda’s complex emergency
Last year I wrote about the destructive impact of Typhoon “Pablo” and the lessons we learned from that disaster (Inquirer, Dec. 22, 2012).
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