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Nobody’s panicking about the wedding drought. Maybe they should be. Or maybe we should not at all. The Philippine Statistics Authority’s latest civil registration data for Western Visayas — 15,408 marriages in 2024, down 16.8 percent from the year before — has been reported mostly as a curiosity. A data point; something to note and
A few months ago, a DepEd teacher friend quietly told me about a student who had suddenly stopped participating in class. The grades slipped. The absences piled up. The classmates noticed but did not know what to do. The teacher wanted to help but was already juggling lesson plans, reports, remedial
The anti-epal era has arrived in Iloilo, and its first suspect is the most common name in the province. Lawyer Josiah David Quising has asked the Department of the Interior and Local Government to investigate Iloilo City Mayor Raisa Treñas-Chu over “TLC ni Inday,” the city’s livelihood program for small vendors, mostly women. His theory,
Growing up around Visayan culture, one quickly realizes that Inday is a word spoken with layers of meaning. Depending on who says it, to whom, and in what context, it can express affection, familiarity, tenderness, respect, or even playful reprimand. Yet beneath these everyday uses lies a much deeper historical
“Just being a commentator is not as easy as people think with going out there and talking for three hours. So, I don’t call myself a commentator: I call myself an analyst.” – Booker T IF we are not careful, our minds will be poisoned by some self-proclaimed political commentators who
In the Gospel of St. Luke, we read the story of two disciples of Jesus who were in despair and have lost hope, because they thought Jesus was the Messiah to save Israel, but then he got crucified instead. “Now that same day two of them were going to a
