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SKETCHES
Heritage custodians
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - March 18, 2024 - 12:00am
From the air, the Chocolate Hills of Bohol are a wondrous sight to behold.
Daughterte-Duterte tandem in 2028?
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - March 15, 2024 - 12:00am
It wasn’t the first time that the idea was floated.
Life after kidnapping
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - March 13, 2024 - 12:00am
For the first time in a long while, I exchanged my evening Net-flix bingeing for a book
Political warfare
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - March 11, 2024 - 12:00am
The battle lines are being drawn between the feuding camps in the (dis)UniTeam. Will it lead to something good for Juan and Juana de la Cruz?
Women empowerment
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - March 8, 2024 - 12:00am
A woman I know left her husband and three children in the Visayas two decades ago to find work in Manila.
Malleable justice
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - March 6, 2024 - 12:00am
There’s another long-running complaint of investors that cannot be cured by Charter change: a compromised Philippine justice system.
Navel-gazing
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - March 4, 2024 - 12:00am
Of course the government doesn’t have funds for wage subsidies, as suggested by pa-pogi lawmakers.
Tatak Pinoy
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - March 1, 2024 - 12:00am
Everywhere I go in my part of town, coffee shops are opening it seems almost every week. Not major chain outlets, but mom-and-pop operations with hole-in-the-wall stands.
Senior moments
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - February 28, 2024 - 12:00am
As of 2020, there were 9,242,121 senior citizens or those above 60 years old in this country, as recorded by the Philippine Statistics Authority.
Spooking investors
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - February 26, 2024 - 12:00am
Thanks to the mad rush to amend the Constitution, the 38th anniversary of the people power revolt had a rallying point, with commemorative events drawing crowds larger than in previous years.
The 3rd chamber
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - February 23, 2024 - 12:00am
The country has a Senate and a House of Representatives. And then there’s the third and most powerful chamber of Congress, the bicameral conference.
Common cause
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - February 21, 2024 - 12:00am
Thanks to the stealthy way proponents are stampeding the nation into Charter change, diverse groups are finding common cause to oppose the Marcos 2.0 administration.
No ceasefire
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - February 19, 2024 - 12:00am
For the second time this year, a ceasefire between the two chambers of Congress was announced over Charter change.
‘Price crash’
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - February 16, 2024 - 12:00am
We keep hearing about prices of agricultural commodities falling at the farm gate.
Till death they won’t part
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - February 14, 2024 - 12:00am
With Valentine’s Day this year coinciding with the day when Catholics are reminded that we are dust, and to dust we shall return, we can blend the sweet with the bittersweet aspects of love and relationsh...
Performance review
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - February 12, 2024 - 12:00am
This love month, Malacañang is in no loving mood. It has launched a performance review of all presidential appointees, “to ensure that those who are qualified will remain in office.”
Conflicted
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - February 9, 2024 - 12:00am
The large pork leg and whole fish are ready for cooking, together with the Chinese fermented mustard greens that I like for my pata tim.
The secessionist
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - February 7, 2024 - 12:00am
The naughty Rodrigo Duterte must be immensely amused. In his retirement, he says “boo” and the government jumps.
Constitutional authoritarianism
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - February 5, 2024 - 12:00am
The elder Ferdinand Marcos, brilliant lawyer that he was, projected himself as a law-abiding person.
‘Tokhang’ brains?
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - February 2, 2024 - 12:00am
As of yesterday, the UniTeam tandem remained intact, although the unity was hanging by a flimsy thread.
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