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[OPINION] Nonoy Espina’s torch shines bright

Renato Redentor Constantino
Posted at Jul 08 04:02 AM

We chose to name the Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship in Nonoy’s honor because, in doing so, we honor the professionalism, the bravery, the grit, and the commitment to a higher calling of Filipino provincial correspondents. Read more »

Indie artists, nakiisa sa benefit concert para sa dating chair ng NUJP

Jeffrey Hernaez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 13 11:40 PM

Isang online benefit concert ang isinagawa ng National Union of Journalists of the Philippines o NUJP para sa dating chairperson nito na si Nonoy Espina. Read more »

Dr. Mary Rose Sancelan: She saved lives and murder was her reward

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Dec 16 11:57 PM

A year and a half since her name and face surfaced on posters red-tagging legal, upright citizens as leaders of Asia’s longest communist insurgency, “vigilantes” rewarded a doctor’s life of service with murder.   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 »

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 »

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 »