Duterte – David Haldane

May 19, 2024

The Transformation and Resurrection of Siargao Island

By David Haldane May 19, 2024 It almost seemed like the old days. The days, that is, before Covid and Odette. Tourists from both […]

February 9, 2023

Soldiers

By David Haldane Feb. 9, 2023 I have a vivid memory of the coffee we sipped. It was bitter, somehow off kilter, as if […]

April 7, 2022

Another Day Off

By David Haldane April 7, 2022 The silence was unsettling. On a Monday morning usually given to the strangely soothing sounds of hammers crunching nails, […]

March 10, 2022

Back to the Barricades

By David Haldane March 10, 2022 For the first time in decades, I feel like an antiwar protestor. It’s not an entirely novel sensation. As […]

November 18, 2021

Weird Angles

By David Haldane Nov. 18, 2021 The thing I remember most is the moonbeams on the water. Like crazy lightning bolts from above, they careened […]

October 21, 2021

A Thousand Cuts

By David Haldane Oct. 21, 2021 The title says it all. “A Thousand Cuts” is the name of a PBS documentary in which renowned Philippine […]

September 2, 2021

Back on Track

By David Haldane September 2, 2021 His excitement was palpable. “Daddy,” he announced from the dimly lit screen of my cell phone, “I made a […]

July 29, 2021

Stuck Behind Walls

By David Haldane July 29, 2021 It could be worse, of course. I could be without Internet, TV and a view of the construction […]

July 1, 2021

Mandatory Jabs

By David Haldane June 30, 2021 He doesn’t always mean what he says. Then again, sometimes he does. Which is why Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s […]