'Tibak Rising'

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Great title, great cover, great stories—ours. The book launch last Saturday of “Tibak Rising: Activism in the Days of Martial Law” (Anvil Publishing) was a very well-attended reunion of sorts. What synchronicity, one might say, because while typhoon Ferdie was blowing and causing floods in some parts of Metro Manila, the book being launched, edited by Ferdinand “Ferdie” C. Llanes, has...

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Killer of dreams

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo If this week you noticed the subject of suicide tackled quite often in the media, it’s because the World Health Organization (WHO)-Western Pacific Region based in Manila invited journalists (three of us from the Inquirer) for a mini-consultation and discussion on the prevention of this killer. A topic not often openly discussed, suicide springs up in the media when a celebrity or a well-known...

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Woman performing C-section on self

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Here’s something to grossly entertain you before I go into other grosser details. A 1996 Inquirer news brief about a hacking incident could have landed in the Guinness Book of World Records except that… I have kept the news clipping all these years and always wondered who should be (dis)credited, the writer or the copy editor. I credit them both for making me laugh every time I stumble upon the story in my files. It qualifies to be included in Inquirer Incredibles. The news brief’s title is...

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Mentoring the Mentors and K to 12

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo I don’t tire of writing follow-up stories on the Mentoring for Mentors Program (MMP) which is quietly fomenting an education revolution in the city and the countryside. MMP is something I really believe in, not because I witnessed its birth (with Inquirer founding chair Eggie Apostol and Marie Eugenie Institute’s Chinit Rufino pushing and heaving) and I was able to snare in my close friends in the academe who would become among MMP’s pillars today, but because it was a great idea made flesh...

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