Low salaries, heavy workloads drive Filipino educators abroad
Tale of teachers’ diaspora
TACLOBAN CITY- Steven (not his real name) left his teaching job in Hilongos, Leyte, for the United States, drawn by the prospect of earning ten times his previous salary.
At 35, this...
I am a VAW survivor; I am healed
CATBALOGAN CITY-Oftentimes we fear what we do not know and what is yet to come. Fear consumes us that in the end, we are left with poor choices.
For Remy, it was also fear that...
PASAR: A heaven-sent establishment to Leyte
By: Alvin Gz. Arpon
The Philippine Associated Smelting and Refinery Corporation (PASAR) hadbeen in Isabel, Leyte for about 30 years ago when this was established and the facilities constructed in 1983.
Worthy of note is this...
Painting keeps Tacloban artist Dante Enage alive after Yolanda
Art keeps him alive.
Known visual and tuba (coconut wine) artist Dante Enage of Tacloban City keeps his passion close to his heart after supertyphoon Yolanda pounded his entire neighborhood in barangay San Jose November...
A JOURNEY TO HAPPILY EVER AFTER: A Modern Day Fairy ...
By Frances Rodelle B. Go
When a man meets a woman at the most imperfect moment but on God’s perfect time, just when they thought things weren’t going as they hoped them to be, God...
Thai princess in the city
TACLOBAN CITY- A real princess stepped inside a “reel” palace in the city for an hour and expressed her “amazement” on how the place remained well-maintained. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand, whose family is...