COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACE70 Cordillera youth tell their storiesBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:11 AM October 28, 2022You help send us to college each time you buy our products.”—Cordillera youthADVERTISEMENTThose words are on the caps of the jam, jelly, and marmalade jars sold (sold out, sometimes) at the Religious of the Good Shepherd (RGS) Mountain Maid Training Center (MMTC) store in Baguio...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEOratio imperata vs. corruptionBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:11 AM October 21, 2022I noticed that, even as the COVID-19 pandemic is softening its deadly impact hereabouts and seems to be on its way out, the oratio imperata after Masses in Catholic churches continues to be recited. For almost three years, the “Oratio Imperata for Protection Against COVID-19” was recited...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEThe longest-held hostageBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:05 AM October 14, 2022Let me get this out before all else: Hear ye! While I do not wish it, a curse may befall those who intentionally delay the legal processes to block the release of former senator Leila de Lima from her more than five years of solitary confinement. For those concerned, time to do the right thing. In Pinoy street-corner lingo: May araw din kayo. It is a truism that comes from the ancients.It...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEJournalists as endangered speciesBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:11 AM October 07, 2022A most profound question one writer asked a revolutionary fighter, who survived the battle of his life, was not how bloody difficult it was or how he won the battle. It was: “Were you afraid?”ADVERTISEMENTWere you afraid? That question could very well be thrown at us journalists,...

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