Tubig-Indangan is a small island in Tawi-Tawi, home to the Badjao, a people who have learned to live where the sea never stays still. They build their...
Something tender unfolds every second of November. Streets slow down, homes fill with the scent of wax and rice cakes, and cemeteries stir with unexpe...
Is this an astounding reversal of fortune or a cruel and sick joke of fate? This wacky question aptly describes the current situation of the country. ...
IT’S good that in our country we have this very popular tradition called “undas” when families go to cemeteries to visit, clean and decorate graves of...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s directive to slash infrastructure project costs by up to 50 percent across seven key government agencies is a welcome...
“A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” ― Theodore Roosev...
By Herman M. Lagon You learn a lot about a culture by how it remembers—not just the dead, but the living who lived with purpose. On All Saints’ Day in...
When I first arrived in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, I did not expect to be so deeply moved by the students of Mindanao State University in Tawi-Tawi College of...
WHILE All Saints Day is supposed to be a solemn day to pay respect to the departed, it is also “enjoyed” as a celebration of Halloween in many countri...