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EYES WIDE OPEN
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.
Better airport cargo service blocked by court
by Iris Gonzales - October 8, 2024 - 12:00am
Talk of the town the past couple of days are the changes happening at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport now that tycoon Ramon S. “RSA” Ang’s consortium has taken over the operations of the...
Goodbye inflation?
by Iris Gonzales - October 6, 2024 - 12:00am
The inflation boogeyman seems to have been beaten – knocked out and black and blue, just like in boxing.
So young, so gone
by Iris Gonzales - October 3, 2024 - 12:00am
In my college days back in UP, I heard and saw firsthand quite a number of incidents of fraternity-related violence.
Impunity
by Iris Gonzales - October 1, 2024 - 12:00am
Bombshell after bombshell, the House of Representatives’ quad committee hearings have been unearthing all the bad and the ugly that characterized Rody Duterte’s administration – from POGOs to crimes...
Manila after POGO
by Iris Gonzales - September 29, 2024 - 12:00am
From luxury vehicles covered with the thickest dust left abandoned in parking lots to empty office buildings, to tens of thousands of jobless workers and, of course, the crimes, there’s now a long list of unusual...
How’s our relationship with Australia?
by Iris Gonzales - September 26, 2024 - 12:00am
As the smell of barbeque, vegetable samosas and other gastronomic delights wafted in the air, the indefatigable Australian Ambassador HK Yu provided updates on the relations between Australia and the Philippines,...
Goodbye NAIA escort services?
by Iris Gonzales - September 24, 2024 - 12:00am
Now that the Ninoy Aquino International AIrport, our main gateway, is no longer in the hands of the government, its new operator has a golden opportunity to really fix things and I don’t just mean the dirty...
Save the Republic
by Iris Gonzales - September 22, 2024 - 12:00am
On Sept. 21, 1972, Ferdinand Marcos Sr. declared martial law to save the Republic.
On the job
by Iris Gonzales - September 19, 2024 - 12:00am
A Filipina radio journalist was once held hostage and threatened by a group of drunk narcotics policemen. Her supposed crime? She was holding a handheld radio.
No ordinary world
by Iris Gonzales - September 17, 2024 - 12:00am
It doesn’t quite compare to the so-called Great Cheese Scandal of Imelda Marcos – you know that story, during the administration of Marcos Sr. about how an airplane that departed Rome had to...
All clear for takeoff
by Iris Gonzales - September 15, 2024 - 12:00am
A waxing gibbous moon on Saturday night marked a new beginning at the country’s main gateway, the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
The traitors in our midst
by Iris Gonzales - September 12, 2024 - 12:00am
Even the most talented scriptwriters of the best Netflix series would probably find their jaws dropping in bewilderment and shock with all the plot twists in this seemingly never-ending Alice in Wonderland fairytale,...
Robina Gokongwei-Pe’s ‘retirement’ plans
by Iris Gonzales - September 10, 2024 - 12:00am
Tycoon Robina Gokongwei-Pe, sports patron of the University of the Philippines’ Fighting Maroons, said she now has more time to watch the UAAP games.
The Oscars for public service
by Iris Gonzales - September 8, 2024 - 12:00am
Apollo Quiboloy, the self-anointed son of God, must be rolling over with laughter.
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