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Planting rice was never fun

By Winston A. Marbella In grade school, we learned this song about the dignity of labor:       Planting rice is never fun,       bent from morn till set…

Wanted badly: P-Noy as People’s President

By Winston A. Marbella Correspondent MANILA – Instead of forcibly retrofitting him to conform to someone’s bizarre concept of what a president should be, Malacanang officials should allow President Aquino…

How the Obama ‘Soul Train’ started in Manila in the 60s

How the Obama ‘Soul Train’ started in Manila in the 60s

Memoir By Winston A. Marbella Correspondent MANILA – Barack Obama’s trek to the White House  began even before he was born.  It began in many places in many different times,…

Postcards from the edge

Postcards from the edge

By Winston A. Marbella My former colleagues at the Camera Club of the Philippines taught me a lesson in photography I will never forget because it is a lesson in…

Gloria’s tragedy

By Winston Marbella For all the drama and romance that hand-to-hand combat brings to the epic struggle of presidential elections, mano a mano duels would hardly suffice now to ensure…

Poignant memories are all that Remain of Cory ‘People Power’

Aquino presidency struggles with lost revolution By Winston A. Marbella Correspondent MANILA – The biggest asset of the Aquino presidency is intangible—and that is why it is so elusive. It…

Senators as judge, jury & prosecutor

Senators as judge, jury & prosecutor

By Winston A. Marbella, Correspondent MANILA – In their effort to set right what is admittedly a flawed impeachment complaint filed by the House of Representatives against Chief Justice Renato…