Writer and educator Lilia Quindoza Santiago dies at 72
Feb 16, 2021 12:59 PM PHT
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Poet, literary critic, and educator Lilia Quindoza Santiago has died at age 72.
Silliman University s Edilberto and Edith Tiempo Creative Writing Center and the University of the Philippines Departamento ng Filipino at Pantikan ng Pilipinas (DFPP) each posted tributes to Santiago on their respective Facebook pages on Tuesday, February 16.
Santiago was born in Manaoag, Pangasinan, and grew up in Baguio, where she studied. In 1972, she was among the student activists who were arrested, detained, and tortured by the military under Ferdinand Marcos regime.
In a 2014 entry on her blog,
SunStar February 17, 2021
(UPDATED, with latest details) Various groups under Save Our Schools (SOS) Network Cebu are calling for the immediate release of 26 Lumads or indigenous people (IP) from Davao del Norte who they claim were “illegally seized” by police authorities in an SVD-owned retreat house at the University of San Carlos-Talamban campus (USC-TC) on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021.
The SOS Network Cebu, composed of church-based groups, academic institutions, militant organizations, and members of civil society said while disguised as a rescue operation to save indigenous children allegedly held in the USC campus without their parents’ consent, the police operation was nothing but a “raid” and an “illegal seizure” of the “Lumad 26.”
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, February 16, urged the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to look into the alleged rescue operation conducted by the police on several members of an indigenous people’s group in an educational center in the University of San Carlos (USC).
2021 Bar Exams in November will be digitized, to be taken at local sites
Feb 15, 2021 5:12 PM PHT
For the first time in history, the Bar Examinations will be taken digitally in several local sites across the country, departing from tradition that it is held in a university in Manila, the Supreme Court confirmed on Monday, February 15.
In a Bar Bulletin dated Sunday, February 14, but released on Monday, Associate Justice Marvic Leonen – the Bar chairman – said the en banc has approved the modality of the 2020 examinations, which is that it will be digitalized, localized and proctored.
As with tradition, the Bar will be taken on the 4 Sundays of November, which are November 7, 14, 21 and 28.
Rights groups, activists and academic institutions have condemned Philippine authorities following a raid targeting Indigenous Lumad students who sought shelter at a Catholic university after being forced from their homes because of fighting between the military and communist rebels.
Monday’s roundup, which the government insisted was a “rescue operation”, is seen as part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s new war against the communists, who have been waging an armed rebellion for half a century.
The Duterte administration recently declared the communists a “terrorist” organisation, after talks with the group collapsed. Since then, it has also accused mainstream left-leaning political parties, workers groups and even academics of acting as “fronts” for the communist rebels – a government campaign that has become known as “red-tagging”. Critics accuse the president of using “communism” as an excuse to crack down on any groups who oppose his administration’s p