"Huwag puro salita". The President’s calls for solidarity and sustainability need to go beyond platitudes and must be reflected in the actual policies of his administration....
Public poetry isn’t dead. But our poets’ responses to the death of the queen – the silent, the awkward, the confrontational – tell us much, as ever, about the societies we live in....
UNDERSTANDING MEDIA: When your poll numbers are bad, almost everything that’s said about you is going to be bad because it fits the narrative. So, the press is always looking for where the weakness is that illustrates why you’re stumbling around....
The national Social Weather Survey of June 26-29, 2022, the last under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, found 88% of adult Filipinos satisfied, 5% undecided, and 7% dissatisfied with the performance of Rodrigo R. Duterte as President....
WHO acted ‘too cautiously, slowly’. 'Failed to work with low- and middle-income countries to make their health management systems robust enough to face regular or ‘mundane’ health problems.'...
What I consider my second "mature" or well-realized poem to come out in a publication of note (UP's 𝘋𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸). 'Children of the Snarl' is also the title of my first book of poems published by Aklat Peskador, 1988....
