13+ hour, 33+ min ago   (419+ words) General Santos City—The scare generated by the Ateneo de Zamboanga University shooting has managed to creep into public schools in some barangays here in this tuna capital city. From news reports, the Grade 9 suspect, who later on shot himself…...

13+ hour, 13+ min ago   (789+ words) Getting back on track Inquirer.net Getting back on track We Filipinos are afraid of success; whenever our economy starts riding high, we always manage to drag it down again,” I heard someone quip many years ago, as he noted…...

13+ hour, 15+ min ago   (633+ words) Inquirer.net Bongao: An impending future I came to Tawi-Tawi for the first time to speak to young science scholars about social responsibility and leadership. I was surprised by how knowledgeable, aware, hopeful, and purposeful the college-level participants from Region…...

13+ hour, 5+ min ago   (237+ words) The recent shooting rampages involving minors in Tacloban and Zamboanga are not isolated tragedies. They are warning signals. And neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives have answers for them today. The Philippines has none of this — no minimum-age…...

13+ hour, 10+ min ago   (549+ words) When the right time comes, President Marcos said he will “certainly endorse” a candidate to succeed him after his term ends in 2028. “I will endorse somebody who I am confident will continue what we have begun in terms of the…...

13+ hour, 35+ min ago   (160+ words) The strength of a network should be measured not only by how often it meets, but by whether meaningful connections continue even as people and positions change. Second, the network can make mentorship more intentional. Being part of the same…...

13+ hour, 20+ min ago   (615+ words) Inquirer.net Can we defeat corruption? (1) The great writer James Baldwin once warned about how injustice could have a debilitating psychological effect by inducing a profound sense of “helplessness and this gnawing uneasiness [which] does something, at length, to even…...

13+ hour, 30+ min ago   (683+ words) Shootings in schools have, until recently, been thought of as something “Western” or even American. Now that we’ve been having a spate of such shootings in the Philippines, we have the usual rush to come up with last-minute remedies to…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (643+ words) One is random, two is a coincidence, and three is a trend, or so the saying goes. But it’s the foolish government that would wait for a third school shooting before deciding it must pull out all the stops to…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (288+ words) So who can be deadlier, the two-legged vermin who have managed to crawl into the depths of the underground, or the four-legged ones who have become a part of your household? I leave you to decide and will choose to…...