Howard Dee, servant and steward

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo   In this age of instant stars and dazzling upstarts, a man named Howard Dee quietly stands out as a man apart, a man for others, a flame braving the tempest.   Tomorrow, Aug. 31, Dee, along with five other Asians—from Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia and India (two)—will receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award from the foundation named after the beloved Filipino president who died in a plane crash in 1957. August 31, 2018, is Magsaysay’s 101st birth anniversary.  This year’s conferment...

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Who killed Ninoy? (2)

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo   Excerpts from my 2003 series on the 16 men convicted in the Aquino-Galman double-murder case.) Was he or was he not the triggerman? Was he the one who caused the instant death of homecoming former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino? Who ordered him to it? CIC Rogelio Moreno has been tagged as the triggerman. The court ruled so. A member of the boarding party that went up the China Airlines plane to escort Aquino down the stairs to a waiting SWAT van, Moreno was supposed to have shot...

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Who killed Ninoy? (1)

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo In 2003, 20 years since Aug. 21, 1983, when Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” S. Aquino Jr. was shot and killed upon arrival from US exile, I interviewed the men who were tried, found guilty for the death of Ninoy and Rolando Galman (the alleged gunman) and sentenced to life imprisonment.   Most of the convicts were then serving their 13th year at the New Bilibid Prison. To get to them several times, I sought permission from the Department of Justice. (Three or four declined to be interviewed.)...

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Mangyans now awaiting answers, solutions

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Big thanks to Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu who, upon learning of the Alangan Mangyans’ concerns related to the construction of 13 hydropower plants (one finished, no thanks to dynamite blasting, and about to operate) and their hazardous effects on their ancestral lands, promptly flew to Oriental Mindoro last Friday to hear them out. But, first,...

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Sec. Cimatu, heed Mangyans' plea

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo I have been in Mangyan country in Oriental Mindoro several times and written about the Mangyan communities living there. About this time last year, I was there for the inauguration of a new training center at Tugdaan Mangyan Center in Naujan town where the Alangan Mangyans have their ancestral domain. I ended my happy piece on it with “More another time.”   Well, today is that “another...

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