Vintage Views

Column items and feature articles in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. The column ran from January 2003 to July 2004.


2007

Tyro beats Espina patriarch in Biliran (May 19, 2007)

'It's all over but the counting' (May 14, 2007)

The right place for disputed first Mass in Limasawa (April 14, 2007)


2006

Biliran revisits past on 'Pueblo Day' (September 9, 2006)

Textbook problem: Out of stock or under revision (June 12, 2006)

Tacloban school kids cope with 4 teachers, no textbooks (June 1, 2006)

Top DPWH exec exposes P153-M financial scam (May 8, 2006)

A history of geologic collapses in St. Bernard (February 25, 2006)


2005

Unsung war hero dies in Australia (December 30, 2005)

This Jap doctor shared his life with Asian neighbors (Obituary feature on Dr. Noboru Iwamura, published in The Tacloban Star,,December 11-15, 2005, pp. 5, 6.)

Woman skirts poverty and blindness (November 19, 2005)

Debate over Balangiga bells continues (October 8, 2005)

US pols, vets at odds over Balangiga bells (September 24, 2005)

Of sea tides and gravity (August 13, 2005)

Artifacts from Biliran's past (June 25, 2005)

Problems that bind Eastern Samar (June 18, 2005)

Building child-friendly villages (May 14, 2005)

Pol bodyguards rob couple in Biliran/
Biliran gov denies he had bodyguards among 7 robbers
(March 18, 2005 / April 6, 2005)


2004

Love in wartime Bato (October 23, 2004)

Man survives as lightning strikes umbrella he's holding on beach (October 10, 2004)

Balangiga rings bells in austere times (October 2, 2004)

Historian of Samar passes away (Obituary feature on Fr. Cantius J. Kobak, OFM, published in The Tacloban Star, September 12-18, 2004, pp. 1, 4, 5)

Patterns of neglect remain in Leyte (September 11, 2004)

A never-ending debate over Bisaya or Tagalog as RP language (August 21, 2004)

Leyte-Samar in 1770 (July 3, 2004)

Protecting the images of saints (May 29, 2004)

First aid reaches Samar frontier town (April 24, 2004)

Doctor in top 5 decides to stick to rural service (April 11, 2004)

Artists celebrate wartime friendship (March 20, 2004)

The legend of Punta de Bulalacao (February 21, 2004)


2003

US expelled Brits from Samar (December 27, 2003)

Waray-waray defended (November 29, 2003)

A song and friendship in wartime Biliran (October 18, 2003)

Mystery ends in search for "third bell" (October 11, 2003)

History crosses bridge in Biliran (October 4, 2003)

Hell in Samar paradise (August 16, 2003)

The underside of Sto. Niņo's odyssey (July 19, 2003)

Bankaw's legacy (May 24, 2003)

Revisiting the Balangiga conflict (March 15, 2003)

Old Bisayan fables, new lessons (February 15, 2003)

Fire hits Biliran town on fiesta eve (early February 2003)

Continuing controversy (January 18, 2003)


2002

Lost meanings in Biliran (October 5, 2002)

Lost at sea: Editorial and comments on the Biliran sea tragedy

Sinking blamed on Coast Guard; They came, saw, but didn't stay (May 13, 2002)


2001

Balangiga heroes send eerie messages (December 1, 2001)

Filipino victory in Balangiga recalled (September 28, 2001)

Solving the Balangiga bell puzzle (August 11, 2001)

Balangiga history not clear as a bell (August 4, 2001)


2000

The saintly priest of Balangiga (September 28, 2000)

Whatever happened to Magellan's Rock? (March 16, 2000)


1999

How Biliran got its name (November 25, 1999)

A love story doomed by war (October 21, 1999)


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