The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
Ed Javier / Where l stand TOKYO—Two weeks ago, this writer had the good fortune to visit this beautiful country and to witness first-hand the compassionate and caring nature of the Japanese people.
Points of View & Perspectives
February, 2015
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9 February
In search of long-range plans
R. V. Vicerra / Cedar The official poverty ratio of 24.9 percent means that one out of every four Filipinos today is poor – living on only P52 (a little over $1 a day). This means also that roughly 25 million Filipinos (and perhaps 2 million more) are living on very limited means of sustenance that barely covers a meal …
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2 February
The pedagogy of the Pope
Dean dela Paz / The Next Page For the more discerning and those astutely aware of the intimate connection between the history of Latin American politics and the personal development of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, there must have been a wealth, nay, a virtual treasure trove of teachings, found in every step, discovered in every movement and displayed in every expression …
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2 February
A fog of silence
Alegria A.Imperial / Peregrine Notes Somehow, in this household I once knew, the pall has dissipated. That about which seemed unspoken has been unraveled. The frayed ends that dangled have been tied into narratives though once in a while, if brushed by a breath, still prompts sobbing which arises from the teenager’s breast of grandmother, now almost 90 years old. …
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2 February
Purisima, Alcala should go
Ed Javier / Where I Stand The nation is angry. If the President’s advisers want him to sail smoothly to the end of his term, they must advise him to do something decisive. That way, he can regain control of the country’s emotion gone awry. He just might be able to leave Malacañang with his head held up high.
January, 2015
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26 January
Didactics for Dinky’s Doles
Dean dela Paz / The Next Page It was rather telling that in the midst of ostentatious and indecent plenty, under the glistening Palace chandeliers, the most luxurious coiffures, the reddest rouge and the stiffest starch set upon the most portly and powerful, the most influential, and in some, the wealthiest and fattest pork barrel-fed politicians, the Holy Father, iconic …
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26 January
After five vicarious haloed days
Alegria A.Imperial / Peregrine Notes Another gray sky blankets Vancouver. Through the blinds, a slivered world of bare trees, bland walls of glass divided in parts by empty alleys as if evacuated, belie a fresh day, which I suppose has just risen a vast ocean away; I imagine another gold-ish day swaths Manila, sustaining the serene haloed air. The hosts …
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26 January
Focus back on hunger issues
Ed Javier / Where I Stand For a brief while, the country focused on what really matters to the ordinary Filipino: food. Just before the papal visit, Sen. Grace Poe called on her colleagues in the Senate to address hunger woes besetting our countrymen, particularly our children.
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26 January
The politics of perception
Edmund Tayao / Mettle Works Why do we measure? Why do we need to determine whether one is big or small, tall or short? When do we say that it is substantial or insignificant? We measure for purposes of comparison? We compare for purposes of reference? We need reference to determine how to go about doing things? Certainly, measurement is …
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19 January
My kind of weather, or is it yours?
Alegria A.Imperial / Peregrine Notes Browsing Vanity Fair back in my youth, when nary a shadow of living in Canada hovered on my palm during those lunch-break visits to Aling Cely — Lolit’s, Eileen’s and my personal fortune teller —I , too had fantasized sashaying along snow-paved sidewalks the likes of New York, suffused in the glamour of a fur-trimmed …