By RON DE VERA Exactly twenty-six years ago I spent the day within the four walls of our home, waiting for you to take me out on a father’s day date. But you never came home. I don’t like speaking on your behalf. I don’t like claiming that you willingly sacrificed your life for the…
Day: June 18, 2016
The Significance of the June 14-15 Preliminary Talks in Oslo 1
That these talks materialized less than a month after the first meeting of the NDFP emissary and the incoming President unmistakably indicates a never-before-seen reservoir of mutual trust, goodwill and understanding. It also speaks of a political will to pursue peace talks in earnest that has been woefully absent under previous administrations.
Duterte moves fast on GPH-NDF peace talks
Within three weeks from his inauguration as the 16th President on June 30, Rodrigo R. Duterte will resume the formal peace negotiations – in limbo since 2013 – between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. The talks will reopen ahead of his first state-of-the-nation address on July 25. And to enhance…
Let the dead bury their dead
“Cemetery of Heroes” is the English translation of “Libingan ng mga Bayani,” where burying the remains of the late Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. has been resisted for years by most of the victims of the fascist dictatorship he erected on the ruins of the Republic in 1972. That has not always been the Cemetery’s name. Established…