The El Nino phenomenon that we are experiencing right now scored the highest for the past 65 years. According to US scientists, the dry spell, which is expected to last until December, will leave our fields dry and risk the productivity of our poor farmers.
It’s been a bloodbath for the Lumad, the collective name for the indigenous peoples of the southern Philippines island of Mindanao.
Yes, the AFP under the present commander-in-chief Pres. Noynoy Aquino is capable of doing absolutely anything. Absolutely anything!
It has been nothing if not a horrific past two weeks for lumad communities across eastern Mindanao.
A good friend and teacher once wrote: “Agriculture is culture. Culture is people”.
In the 60s, the first wave of migrants from the Philippines to the United States landed in Hawaii and neighboring states to settle as migrant workers with no specific professional and gendered identities, except that some were technically skilled and some were college degree holders or intellectually and academically advantaged in their own right.
The chief of state, President Noynoy Aquino, ironically, a scion of an icon lying protrate on the tarmac of history, all at once, comes out from the portal of hypocrisy into the bloodstained stretches of his “matuwid na daan”– Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! — of the indigenous people’s blood.
My nephew, having known me to be a published writer in the BISAYA magazine, asked me to write his own life story.
All the Trapo politicians who have already started their campaign for the coming 2016 elections are adopting the “malasakit” gimmick. And it’s not even “campaign season” yet as provided by law.
We have repeatedly criticized and denounced the game of politics prevailing in our country.
