President Aquino on Wednesday urged Filipinos to continue helping his administration strive “for more meaningful and lasting reforms” to bolster efforts to lift the nation to “greater heights.”
Book a tour or visit online. Secretary Edwin Lacierda on Monday exhorted Filipinos to get reacquainted with Malacañang, which marks its 150th anniversary as the official residence of the country’s Chief Executive Monday.
Some 400 farmers massed in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Quezon City, voicing their demands for the fulfillment of a promise, but the 25th anniversary of the celebrated land-to-the-tiller program yesterday went largely unnoticed.
They’re not only ambassadors but superheroes. And their mission is to make this a better world.
The 100th anniversary celebration of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA), with the theme “Bagong Siglo, Bagong Sigla,” begins on March 24, Palm Sunday, with a “family fiesta.”
One year ago last Friday (March 2), I received a call from Gani’s wife tearfully telling me he had suffered a stroke. They were in this community hospital in Pasig and she asked me to rush to the place. On the phone, the attending doctor told me Gani was dead on arrival and that the emergency room personnel had tried to revive him, to no avail.
Edsa looked like this—a vast multitude of civilians thronging the avenue to protect the rebels headquartered in Crame and Aguinaldo. The proximate causes of their gathering were the mobilization of Butz Aquino’s peer network and the appeal of Cardinal Sin on Radio Veritas to the national audience. But why did the people come?
“Don’t cheat in your exam,” President Aquino on Monday advised orphans who were treated to an afternoon of entertainment in Malacañang as part of government celebrations marking the 27th anniversary of Edsa I.
In the afternoon of Feb. 22, 1986, Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos, under threat of imminent arrest, sought refuge in their military headquarters. In the morning of Feb. 25 both were sworn into the government of Corazon Aquino. That same evening Ferdinand Marcos flew into exile.
Amid the hoopla of the People Power I celebration, President Aquino on Monday signed a law compensating close to 10,000 victims of human rights violations during martial law as he exhorted Filipinos to “celebrate a race that will never again be oppressed.”
As the nation hung on a knife-edge on Feb. 22, 1986, President Ferdinand Marcos signed a deal with an emissary of US President Ronald Reagan to keep him in power that included removing his wife, Imelda, and loyal security chief Gen. Fabian Ver, former Trade Minister Roberto V. Ongpin said in an interview with the Inquirer last week.
In the twilight of the Marcos regime, a voice was heard across the land.
“Jose Velarde,” not the one who was ousted in Edsa II, is back, making backroom deals with Malacañang executives who are pushing for the construction of a memory museum for Edsa I, or the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution.
