Day: February 19, 2017

Promoting impunity

The campaign by President Rodrigo Duterte and his allies in Congress for the restoration of the death penalty is replete with irony. Capital punishment is supposed to discourage criminality while at the same time insuring that those who commit certain crimes get what they deserve. But what’s likely is that rather than deter crime and…

Babae, Hawak mo ang Kalahati ng Kalangitan

Ni KRISELLE CARTALLA Babae ka. Pero hindi lang isang ordinaryong babae. Isa ka ring manunulat, makata, mangingibig at madirigma. Sumusulat ka hindi lang para sa mag-ingay Dahil sa bawat paglathala mo’y kalakip nito ang mga kwento at sanaysay mong may saysay. Tumutula ka hindi lang para magpasikat Dahil ang boses mo ang iyong puhunan sa…