Kadayawan asta karaatan maglumon. In English, this Dabawenyo expression means “the good and the bad are siblings”, symbolizing the duality of…
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The trouble with us Filipinos is that we are easily appeased. Even when our expectations are not met, we tend to compromise more often than pursue what we want to achieve or gain.
What is profoundly expressed by the evacuees is their aspiration to go back home despite the fear that they may have lost everything in the incessant bombings which they could still overhear at night.
Progressive youth activists insisted that the youth are entitled to an array of rights, including the right to free and quality education.
While it may be said that the President’s decision still gets the nod of Filipinos as claimed by government apologists, the blunders cannot be ignored.
President Rodrigo Duterte has committed an injustice against the Moro people with the continuing onslaught of the military in Marawi City, a progressive Moro organization said.
Holding their faces on their palms in an attempt to cover their emotions, the Muslim mentors quietly cried as teacher Tayato Mnidalagat, one of the senior educators led the community prayer.
Then I cannot help but ask myself why are we allowing these things to happen to us here in Mindanao? Quo vadis, Mr. President?
