Priorities

When a foreign journalist does more to help typhoon victims than their own president, you know something is wrong. In a third world country, a calamity the scale of Typhoon Haiyan would have devastating results – and it did. The scenes in the cities hardest hit by the typhoon were so moving that in less […]

Theology and Natural Disasters

Am I the only one who doesn’t believe there’s a direct correlation between religion and geology? Because that seems to be the case. After a devastating, magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocked the Central Visayas region this week the Filipino people, as always, turned to the most irrelevant angle of the story to scrutinize. Despite the fact […]

The Calm Before the Storm

This June, the Philippines was ranked first in the world in terms of storm-related fatalities for the second consecutive year. The year 2012 left the nation with the highest number of storm casualties anywhere in the world, the same was true in 2011 as well. The previous year, Filipinos endured Typhoon ‘Sendong’ which left 1,257 […]

Where to Now?

Once again, it’s the 12th of June. This day may pass as just another Wednesday for most people all over the world, merely another episode of waking up, going to work or school then tucking oneself to bed preparing for the next day again. Yet, this day marks a very special event in history. Yes, […]

What’s ours is ours, what’s not is not

It is said that sovereignty lies at the forefront of every nation’s identity. Everything that is within the borders defined by the state’s constitution is part of their heritage, it is their patrimony which they are ordained to defend because they have sovereignty, or the moral responsibility, over this domain. In failing to safeguard their […]