Friday, May 15, 2026
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Tag: Jonathan Dela Cruz

Let sleeping dogs lie

"Why did Lorenzana even mount this high-profile operation?"   Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana should consider sidelining whoever advised him to end the 1989 DND-UP agreement that,...

Hail to the chief

"The problem is that calls for unity can end up on slippery slopes."   Last week, Joseph R. Biden was formally sworn in as the 46th...

Our Dengvaxia moment

"The question of public acceptability lingers."   The conflicting statements and reports being issued by administration officials on the government’s Covid-19 vaccination program is turning this...

Still out in the cold

"It will be hard for our people to believe that we will be able to get even just the first vaccine injected by February."   What...

Shattered

"In the US, demonization and blame throwing dominate."   To say that America was shaken to the core, as our paper’s headline bannered last Friday, is...

Good men down

"Farewell, Danny and RU."   After losing a number of friends and classmates to COVID-19 over the course of last year, I had hoped that I...

Divided

"Toxicity seems to be taking hold across communities and nations, even among families and organizations."   What is it with this pandemic that instead of compassion...

L’affair COVID-19 vaccine

"What are these agencies waiting for?"   A regular listener of our daily morning radio program Karambola on DWIZ 882 AM asked what violations, if any,...

COVID-19 in 2021

"Let’s stay the course while moving forward."   I do not intend to rain on the parade over the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in several countries. Most...

Hopeful as always

"We have learned to be more self-reliant than ever before without losing our compassion and community spirit."   To say that 2020 was a most challenging...

Asia is faring better

"It is important to learn best practices from each other."   By and large, Asian countries are faring better than most in coping with the second,...

Dropping the ball

"But wait. There’s more."   Being a health worker is a challenging job under any circumstance. After going through the rigors of schooling, on-the-job training and...

‘Kuryente’

"This was the old term for “fake news.”"     Up until the late '90s, “kuryente” was the media shortcut for fake news. A story appearing out of...

Gaslighting

"‘Question. Question. Question.’" (Part 2)   We proceed from where we took off in our December 11 column where we gave space to an abridged version of...
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