At 2a.m. the city was asleep. The road was deserted. The early morning breeze engulfed the highway to freezing point.
Manong David, wrapped in his thick coat, was chilling and has stammered when I hailed his motorela cab for home. He agreed to a pakyaw rate of P35, a win-win between his ...
The city council has scheduled to tackle in its session on September 2 the status of the delayed construction of Malaybalay City’s new public market.
Vice Mayor Ignacio W. Zubiri told MindaNews they have invited concerned parties to the session on Tuesday to shed light on the P225 million construction project.
Contractor ...
The government has dissolved its peace panel today, according to Mindanawon Prof. Rudy “Ompong” Rodil, vice chair of the GRP peace panel, in an announcement in a Mindanao e-group, as qouted by MindaNews in this report.
“The era of peace talks is over,” said one of the reactions as qouted in the same ...
Waking up to a broadcaster howling against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front one morning, I was tempted to turn the radio off.
The grain of his voice has pestered me in my space in that corner of the house.
“Maayo ng girahon sila kay gusto man diay nila og Independence!” Gusto pa ...
“Iitsa, tamoka, yataki, tumbi!” ”Iitsa, tamoka,
yataki, tumbi!”
Iitsa, tamoka, yataki, tumbi! (That’s throw, catch, step and stamp!)
I thought for a while it was a line in a Kenyan song I learned from
someplace else, but the words sounded familiar even if it was belted
out in a universal beat.
Waway Saway’s song lingered in my hearing ...
Monologue in front a TV report on the Lanao Norte attack
This is a time to be old,
and a time to be young
a hesitation we cannot flaunt.
In this time of Mindanao
I know I am home,
but I know I am not at home.
Who would want to breath the threats in your life?
Who would want ...
The formal sessions of the 4th Mindanao Media Summit just concluded early afternoon today, 09 August 2008.
The theme: “Mindanao 2020: The vision begins with us”, is placed in an imposing tarp at the back draft. It was a reminder to me as a member of the group who took on “drafting” ...
