LETTERS FROM DAVAO
Political balderdash (Letters from Seattle by Jun Ledesma)
Watching political changes from afar (Letters from Seattle by Jun Ledesma)
“Na bad shot tayo” (Letters from Seattle by Jun Ledesma)
Davao del Norte from a dot com (Letters from Seattle by Jun Ledesma)
A case of horrible ignorance (Letters from Seattle by Jun Ledesma)
Sizzling weather in Ayungin (Letters from Seattle by Jun Ledesma)
A voice from under (Letters from Davao by Jun Ledesma)
A week of festivity and insanity (Letters from Davao by Jun Ledesma)
Davao City, the land of the Maisug (Letters from Davao by Jun Ledesma)
Corruption uncovered in the midst of ruins (Letters from Davao by Jun Ledesma)
Political balderdash (Letters from Seattle by Jun Ledesma)The Executive and Legislative Departments are trying to outwit each other on the issue of rice productivity and sufficiency and look at amending the Rice Tarrification Law and other absurdities that come out from the minds of law makers who have very little knowledge or none at all of basic agriculture, the balance of how […]
Watching political changes from afar (Letters from Seattle by Jun Ledesma)“When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.” This is a quote from the book “The Prophet” written by the famous Lebanese-American author Khalil Gibran. It finds meaning and […]
“Na bad shot tayo” (Letters from Seattle by Jun Ledesma)Watching my country from across the Pacific Ocean is like watching a fish drowning in water. So vast are the potentials yet so wanting. Inept politicians had made life so miserable. Yesterday Nekkei Asia News reported that the Philippines saw 100% drops from 2022. That means no new investments or construction projects at all since […]
Davao del Norte from a dot com (Letters from Seattle by Jun Ledesma)It’s incredible how the internet of things could reduce the huge wide world into what seems like just your neighborhood. In nano seconds for as long as I am awake, I can see and hear what are unraveling in places and little nooks in Davao Region and elsewhere in the country. And yes I can […]
A case of horrible ignorance (Letters from Seattle by Jun Ledesma)From where I am today, I can feel the wind of change in my homeland. The simmering heat is not enough to warm the chilling of political accord that pervade for some time now. That statement coming from Bongbong Marcos being “horrified” by the bilateral talks between former President Rodrigo Duterte and Pres. Xi Jinping […]