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Gretchen Barretto thanks sister Claudine for inspiring her to be a 'better daughter'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 21 04:05 PM

Gretchen Barretto thanked her youngest sister Claudine for “inspiring her to be a better daughter.”   Read more »

OPINION: Night falls on our regions, heartlands of this nation

Inday Espina-Varona
Updated as of Aug 29 09:27 AM

As ABS-CBN regional news bureaus turn dark, that inky blackness is the hole that President Duterte punched into the national soul. Read more »

OPINION: Governance by pogrom

Inday Espina-Varona -- scaRRedCat
Posted at Jul 23 02:51 PM

In the latest police gospel on the COVID-19 pandemic, neighbors are told to tattle about kin and friends. This isn’t just unscientific. It is a danger to people’s lives.  Read more »

Negros Occidental volunteers use art to honor women struggling, surviving in pandemic

Yasmin Pascual-Dormido, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 11 03:27 PM

Aid workers in Negros Occidental are using green-inspired art to pay tribute to women facing the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.  Read more »

OPINION: Why we can’t believe platitudes proffered for new anti-terror law

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Jun 03 06:34 PM

When President Rodrigo Duterte and his apologists tut-tut and sneer that only terrorists need to fear the proposed new anti-terror law, the easiest answer is “Drug War”.   Read more »

Empleyado ng mga negosyong di pa pwede magbukas, bibigyan ng ayuda sa Davao

Claire Cornelio, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 20 12:34 AM

Kapag tapos na ang pangatlong relief distribution sa Davao City, ang mga empleyado ng mga negosyong di pa pwede magbukas sa ilalim ng GCQ ang susunod na mabibigyan ng ayuda, saad ni Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio. Read more »

OPINION: Silence is not an option on ABS-CBN shutdown

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at May 06 03:42 PM

Whatever finger-pointing antics the day holds, one thing is clear: The closure of ABS-CBN leaves a big scar on the landscape where critical, vetted information should flow free, especially in an era of disinformation. Read more »

OPINION: They’re killing aid workers in the Philippines

Inday Espina-Varona -- scaRRedcat
Updated as of May 01 12:55 AM

Masked men barged into Jory Porqia's humble beachside shack in Sto. Nino village, in Iloilo City’s Arevalo district and shot him eight times, targeting his head and other parts of the body. Read more »

OPINION: Gagging truth-tellers in the time of COVID19

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Apr 21 03:57 PM

What the national COVID19 experience has shown, so far, is that centralizing decision-making in the hands of a few people with the same worldview is detrimental to society’s health.   Read more »

Overseas health workers scapegoats for gov’t failure to invest in frontliners

Inday Espina-Varona, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 14 10:09 AM

The government has banned the deployment of Filipino health workers abroad, claiming they are needed to beef up a health system “under severe strain” from the novel coronavirus contagion.   Read more »

OPINION: Bankrupt in governance skills, Duterte rolls out his ‘kill’ solution

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Apr 02 05:55 PM

Instead of acknowledging compassionate attempts to mitigate the worst lockdown effects, President Duterte showed anger. Read more »

'Overly enraging': Sara Duterte blasts fake voice clip on COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 27 11:28 PM

Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio on Tuesday slammed a viral recording on social media imitating her voice and issuing statements on the novel coronavirus, saying "it was deliberately produced to fool the public into believing that it was" hers. Read more »

COVID19 and the least of our brethren

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Mar 15 04:00 AM

The Philippines' capital, Metro Manila, will face a nightmare should community transmission crop up in urban poor communities. Read more »

Duterte to get tested for COVID 19 as officials go on self-quarantine, offices shut

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 12 11:43 AM

The Philippines on Thursday awaited test results of President Rodrigo Duterte for coronavirus infection, as top officials went on self-quarantine as a precaution against the spread of the disease. Read more »

Colonel Inday Sara faces Commission on Appointments

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 11 03:01 PM

(UPDATE) Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio donned a formal military uniform for her confirmation as a reserve colonel in the Army on Wednesday. Read more »

Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte-Carpio, suportado ang franchise renewal ng ABS-CBN

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 27 06:40 PM

Suportado ni Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte-Carpio ang panawagan na i-renew ang prangkisa ng ABS-CBN.  Read more »

OPINION: When one man’s whims substitute for the national interest

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 26 09:07 PM

Never since the Marcos days has the Philippine media come under such a systemic attack. Duterte is determined to target an entire profession for subjugation. Read more »

OPINION: As more Diamond Princess Pinoy crew test positive for COVID-19, unrest grows

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 24 09:57 PM

Some of the Filipino crew aboard the Diamond Princess, a cruise vessel where COVID-19 cases have ballooned to more than 600 cases, are asking the Philippine government to bring all workers home, including those who tested positive for the virus after a February 20 mass testing. Read more »

OPINION: Families, crew question protocols on infection-stricken cruise ship

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 21 10:18 PM

Filipinos comprise roughly half of the Diamond Princess’ 1,000-strong workforce. Forty-one have been infected with the COVID-19 and brought to isolation wards in Japan. Read more »

OPINION: Duterte's choices: Why we can't beat drug scourge

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 17 12:02 PM

Candidate Rodrigo Duterte campaigned in 2016 to rid the Philippines of drugs in six months. After almost four years of painting urban alleys red, with thousands of poor drug suspects dead in police operations and "vigilante" executions, Duterte’s program is a failure. Read more »