Author: Alex Vidal

I developed a friendship with Dr. Carmencita “Menchie” Robles, 61, when I was writing for the News Express from 1988 until 1992.

The good news is the Kasadyahan Festival will no longer be a second class citizen. If plans do not miscarry, it will have its own identity and territorial waters, no longer as a curtain-raiser for the well-fed Ati Festival.

NONE of our Ilonggo legislators were among the contenders for major posts when the administration lap puppies led by recently installed House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano divided the “kingdoms” of the House of Representatives the way the generals of Alexander the Great divided his kingdoms after his death.

The biggest stumbling block in Sen. Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao’s presidential ambition is not Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte for they both belong in Mindanao.