"Crime-ation'

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Crime-ation (noun): hiding a crime of murder by cremating the body of the victim and disposing of the ashes. That’s a word I have just coined to add to the crime lexicon. A proper name that has also just come up is “Camp Crime”; it was derived from Camp Crame, the name of the national headquarters of the Philippine National Police, where a heinous crime, the murder of a South Korean kidnap-for-ransom...

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The Pinkpussyhat Project

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Here’s something US President-elect Donald Trump said about women in 2005 that was recorded and surfaced during the US presidential election: “Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” For women who value their essence and dignity, that is an insult.  Participants in the Women's March on Washington make their way down Independence Avenue Jan. 21. (CNS photo / Bob Roller) Hereabouts,...

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Terror truck attacks

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo What will they think of next? What weapons of terrorism will they use next to kill and maim innocents, paralyze communities with fear, and keep people in a heightened state of anxiety? These thoughts were uppermost in my mind while the yearly procession of the image of the Black Nazarene was in progress on Jan. 9. Drawing millions of devotees that fill the main streets of Manila, the procession...

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Journalism is not a game or a joke

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Who elected the press?” is the title of a 1980 piece by Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc, who was editor in chief of the Inquirer for 25 years until she passed away on Christmas Eve of 2015. She wrote the piece when she was the editor of Panorama magazine. It was one of her pieces that displeased the Marcos dictatorship and was therefore censored—the last straw that caused her forced resignation. Truth...

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