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EYES WIDE OPEN
‘No joke’
by Iris Gonzales - November 24, 2024 - 12:00am
Filipinos woke up yesterday to yet another drama that unfolded in this nation of 120 million.
We should be alarmed over dengue
by Iris Gonzales - November 21, 2024 - 12:00am
I personally heard of two dengue deaths in a span of just a week. One is a five-year old girl and another, a college student.
‘Democrazy’
by Iris Gonzales - November 19, 2024 - 12:00am
In a small makeshift home in a poverty-stricken neighborhood somewhere in Metro Manila, a five-year-old girl’s family is in mourning. Their beloved girl died of dengue a few days ago. They couldn’t afford...
Good news for commuters
by Iris Gonzales - November 17, 2024 - 12:00am
One of the most challenging things about being Filipino and living in the Philippines is the difficult, dizzying and dirty public commute.
Solving the housing problem
by Iris Gonzales - November 14, 2024 - 12:00am
“Home is the starting place of love, hope and dreams,” the singer Lana Del Rey once said.
Mental health issues a concern for Marcos
by Iris Gonzales - November 12, 2024 - 12:00am
Mental health problems in the country are on the rise.
Cautionary tale
by Iris Gonzales - November 10, 2024 - 12:00am
Much has been said about the results of the US presidential election, but the best post-mortem comes from Bernie Sanders.
From the Philippines and beyond
by Iris Gonzales - November 7, 2024 - 12:00am
The first time I met AppleOne Properties president and CEO Ray Manigsaca was when I visited the Sheraton Cebu Mactan Resort on Punta Engaño Road last year.
An election that will shape the world
by Iris Gonzales - November 5, 2024 - 12:00am
The world is waiting with bated breath as Americans decide on who their next president will be – Donald Trump or Kamala Harris? Poll results indicate that it’s going to be a razor-thin race, with some...
Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China embrace
by Iris Gonzales - November 3, 2024 - 12:00am
“It was the early 2000s. A man, appearing to be in his mid-fifties with dark hair and brown skin, arrived at the Los Angeles International Airport from a business trip to Brazil.
Tragedy
by Iris Gonzales - October 31, 2024 - 12:00am
A Shakespearean tragedy pales in comparison to Philippine society’s real-life drama unfolding right before our eyes. Not even Richard III, whose protagonist has an insatiable lust for power and kills everyone...
End of an era
by Iris Gonzales - October 29, 2024 - 12:00am
Around this time some seven years ago, or maybe more, I landed at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport and quickly caught a somnambulant spell.
Where are the gods of guilt?
by Iris Gonzales - October 27, 2024 - 12:00am
In an early morning meeting last week over black coffee, the head of a Triple A contractor warned me that at the rate that funds for flood control are being corrupted here in our country, it’s likely that in...
Food prices at NAIA to go down, says Ang
by Iris Gonzales - October 24, 2024 - 12:00am
From a malfunctioning baggage handling system to abandoned cars at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Ramon S. Ang or RSA, it seems, has inherited such a dizzying task of managing the country’s main...
Family feud and our tight fiscal space
by Iris Gonzales - October 22, 2024 - 12:00am
The only thing worse than a breakup is an ugly breakup, and that’s exactly what has happened with the Marcoses and the Dutertes.
The world is watching
by Iris Gonzales - October 20, 2024 - 12:00am
I have been to the famed Masungi – that rustic rock garden and conservation area nestled perfectly in the Sierra Madre mountain range in Baras, Rizal – not once but several times over the past several...
Hottest ‘telenovela’ in town
by Iris Gonzales - October 17, 2024 - 12:00am
Truth, it’s been said, is stranger than fiction and may I add, more interesting, too, as seen in the number of viewers hooked on the hearings of the House of Representatives’ quad committee.
Showbiz and politics
by Iris Gonzales - October 15, 2024 - 12:00am
The 2025 midterm elections circus has come to town, as they say, and what a joke it’s turning out to be.
Distressed
by Iris Gonzales - October 13, 2024 - 12:00am
In Beirut, Lebanon in 2020, I saw bullet-ridden buildings, gun-trotting men roaming the streets and I passed by malls that were padlocked.
Sabin Aboitiz’s bet
by Iris Gonzales - October 10, 2024 - 12:00am
“Finally!” said an excited Sabin Aboitiz, president and CEO of Aboitiz Equity Ventures, when I bumped into him recently at Cebu Pacific’s grand celebration of its historic aircraft purchase.
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