WE Day: Beating the scourge

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo   In case you didn’t know, the United-Nations-initiated World Environment Day is on June 5, with India playing the host this year. It is trumpeting the theme “Beat plastic pollution” with the aim of combating the single-use plastic scourge.   Here’s the host driving home the point: “In the time it takes [Indian international cricket player] Hardik Pandya to bowl an over in a...

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Manila Bay. a toilet bowl

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo   Photo by Don Lejano, Inquirer.net If you take a second look at Manila Bay on the map, its shape is somewhat like that of a urinal. No, a toilet bowl, insists lawyer and environmental activist Antonio Oposa Jr. It is a toilet bowl that has not been flushed, he adds. It is a toilet bowl not just in shape but also because of what it has become, both figuratively and literally.   At...

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'Apokalypsis'

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo With Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno thrown out the door of the Supreme Court by eight (of 14) of her fellow justices last Friday the eleventh, many more things are coming to light. In fact more things that were heretofore not in our imagination have been laid bare in the recent months and weeks.   Are end times of a metaphorical kind upon us? Is it “Apocalypse Now,” to borrow...

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Voices, images from the frontlines

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo   Photo by Raffy Lerma/Philippine Daily Inquirer Last May 3, World Press Freedom Day, media groups published a pooled editorial, “Speak truth to power, keep power in check” in newspapers, the Inquirer among them. Behind it were Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, and Philippine Press Institute. At the media forum held...

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Speak truth to power, keep power in check

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/Pooled editorial This is a pooled editorial published by a network of journalists including the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, the Philippine Press Institute, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, and the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility. The editorial marks the observance of World Press Freedom Day today, and is also published in four other Philippine languages:...

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