By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
The craze for the tinsel shine has successfully fed the vanities of our female population. However it overlooks the more valuable concerns that should have spurred the imperative pursuits in our developing nation.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
The capitalist school-owner would not bother about who cannot enroll and be educated because there are always several others who can pay. In business the law of supply and demand always holds its sway. Sori ka na lang kung wala kang pang-tuition!
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
A person of political maturity should stake his (her) political career to make a stand and commitment to a higher cause than winning an electoral post. This is the acid test of true statesmanship and political wisdom.
By AMIRA ALI LIDASAN
Davao Today
However, the most vulnerable are the hundreds of undocumented migrant workers who have been the backbone of Sabah’s economy. They work in Sabah as domestic helpers, construction workers, plantation workers, street sweepers, waitress, cook and other menial jobs. Despite of their long stay in Sabah, they cannot get the IC or permit needed to be residents or workers in Sabah.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
And the education we get is not even a suitable response to our dream. Neither is it ideally relevant to our doggoned reality. It is a goddamned colonial education rammed down into our throats by our erstwhile colonial masters!
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
It was tagged as the Jabidah Massacre, where several Muslim youths, mostly Tausog, were recruited and underwent military training. They were promised a bright tomorrow. But they were mercilessly murdered by the trainer-soldiers of Marcos. It was alleged that they were trained for a “secret plan” which later came to be divulged as having to do with the Philippine claim to Sabah.
By AMIRA ALI LIDASAN
Davao Today
In the history of the Moro people, the Kirams were a picture of a royalty who gave in to the colonials. Sabah was a gift given by the Sultanate of Brunei to the Sultanate of Sulu, because of its help in quelling a rebellion against the Brunei sultanate in 1658. The Sulu Sultanate then leased North Borneo to British North Borneo Company in 1878 in exchange of 5,300 Mexican pesos. Britain would then annex Sabah during colonization until 1946 and the new Federated Malaysia included it as part of its territory in 1963.
(First of a three-part column)
By AMIRA ALI LIDASAN
Davao Today
We can see the worry in the face of Princess Jacel as she updates her father, her emotional appeal to end the attack against her father’s men, and her anger at Pres. Aquino. In the press conference, she wore the Muslim woman’s veil or tirong in her Tausug language, emotional in her challenge against Aquino. This is the image of a Muslim woman challenging the state because she is a victim of government neglect, of human rights violation such as enforced evacuation in a conflict area, or whose husband or son was falsely identified as an Abu Sayyaf member and illegally arrested in exchange of rewards against terrorists.
By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today
I am especially grateful that I have a strong Nanay, who also fights for the rights and freedom of the women who are abused and oppressed. I am happy that my Nanay has stood her ground, picked herself up and walked on despite the heartaches that she has been through.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
As a Filipino, it is our patriotic duty to abide by the Sultan who has pursued the claim not only for the Sultanate but ultimately for the Philippine State. We cannot just leave him and our other Filipino compatriots at the mercy of a foreign government who has shown no respect for human rights, indiscriminately brutalizing Filipinos in the area.
