GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 19 December) — During our journey to the West Philippine Sea (WPS), I wrote four running articles online, published short notes with pictures, and also took video footages to mark where we were and the
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 24 November) — The November 23 visit of President Ferdinand R. Marcos to General Santos City in the aftermath of the Magnitude 6.8 earthquake that hit the city and its neighboring localities on November 17,
GISENYI, Rwanda (MindaNews / 01 May) — The extension of the term of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) for another, but final, three years is unquestionably necessary for the completion of the infrastructure of lasting peace in Mindanao, which is
GICALE, Rwanda. (MindaNews / 17 April) – General Santos City is no stranger to epic electoral contests. In fact, sensational and emotion-laden electoral contests had already happened twice in this southernmost tip of the country. The first was when the
GISENYI, Rwanda (MindaNews / 03 April) — It is said that, if we do not travel, it is as if we are only reading one page of the book. Indeed, it is true. Travel to places, far and near,
As of this writing, the latest session of Congress has just adjourned, and it is scheduled to again resume on May 17, 2021 and again to adjourn sine die on the first week of June this year. Is there life
We disagreed with almost all that President Rodrigo Duterte has said and done, and detested him for not doing so many great things that we believe should be done. But, we heartily appeal to the President to save his
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 14 November) — I really take offense why I am being red-tagged in General Santos City even if it is very clear in my experiences that I am not a communist, was not a communist
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 07 November) — Red-tagging appears in many shapes and forms. That you are being red-tagged may not be made public, but this type of clandestine red-tagging makes it even more dangerous. On November 5, 2020,
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MIndaNews / 31 October) –With all eyes now beaming towards the 2022 national and local elections, our city councilors in GenSan are now confining their actions and messages on issues which they think could earn them more
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 11 Sept) — I concede that delving into this twin topic “health and economy” is like trekking across an unfamiliar territory, with all its rugged, at times, hostile contours. The reason for it is this. I
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 06 September) — It is my view that we, the sovereign people, have a public elemental duty to demand from the members of the “Gang of 70” in the House of Representatives to make a
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 01 September) — In 2018, I tested how the general public would react by posting on social media two different pictures: one, the picture of a pet dog sprawling lifeless on the ground, with its
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 02 May) — If there were grievous mistakes I made within my lifetime, one of these was when I thrice attempted to join the legal profession by taking the bar examinations, but miserably failed. The
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 21 April) — Labor Secretary Silvestre “Bebot” Bello III, in purportedly fulfilling President Rodrigo Duterte’s promise to the workers, has, instead, created another far greater evil, while not still ending the contractualization of labor and
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 11 April) — The call for public accountability of labor arbiters assigned in this southernmost corridor of Mindanao is a compelling public need because of their alleged collusion with companies. In consonance with the doctrine
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 01 April) — When the resolution consenting to the operation of the Small Town Lottery (STL) in General Santos City was first introduced in the Sangguniang Panglunsod (SP) on October 10, 2017, talks regarding lobby
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 11 March) — The subsistence fisherfolk who are eking out a living in the once economically bustling Sarangani Bay, used to be one of the most dominant economic sectors in the City of General Santos. Today, however,
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 07 March) — When Senator Salipada Pendatun attacked former President Marcos in a bombastic speech, Marcos rushed to Manila from Mindanao to immediately initiate damage-control measures to cushion the public impact of Pendatun’s tirades. Whenever
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 18 Feb) — I find it appropriate to state, at the outset, that it is dangerous for us to allow the military to succeed in its current social experiment whose ends are clearly to stifle
My use of possessive pronoun Since this work contains my purely personal reflections, there are times that I will be using the pronoun “I” or “me”, etc. and not “we” or “us”, etc. in some parts of this article.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 19 Nov) — Even without us doing anything, society can correct itself through its own natural way of dealing with itself. Society has its own mechanism for self-correction. When it becomes so wrong, society either
