Sentidokomon

By Josephine “Joy� B. Miranda, Editor in Chief

Mathew 22:14: For many are invited, but few are chosen. The Philippine Honorary Consul to Cyprus Shemaine Kyriakides, Labor Attache Designate to Cyprus Atty. Jaime Jimenez, Politis Editor cum Representative Mr. George Andriotis, Western Eagle Investigation Director Mr. Kyriakos Loizides, Vice Prexy for European Movement of Cyprus Council Dr. Joseph Josephides, co staff members, compatriots, guests from different places and organizations, good afternoon.

“Media, a duty to lifeâ€? My late father had pushed me hard to be in the media business. I could still remember when I first scribble a news article. It was just for fun then later I enjoyed the pay and the attention I was getting mostly from my Dad’s contemporaries. Until he was shot dead that my idea about being a media practitioner had totally changed. The challenged was handed down to me that news writing was no longer a thing to be taken for granted, rather it is a duty and a great responsibility towards the readers and the recipient of the news. To sum it up, I have been in the news writing business for two decades and with such experience I could not trade it in for anything in this world. However, there came a point in my life that I was lured by the beauty of earning dollars. I decided to set aside my glamorous career as a writer and opted to work abroad. In short, I also experience what everyone have gone through or going through right now as an overseas Filipino worker (OFW.)  Nevertheless, as they say “once a writer will always be a writerâ€?, in every nook and corner of things and places that I encounter, there are plenty to write about for, things which are necessary to share to others, informations that affect the general public, and this I know deep inside me that this is indeed my personal calling, that God had chose me to be in this field. So here I am again back to my original undertaking, giving out news for everybody as this is my duty to life.

Last week, I received nasty messages against me which only mal-educated people can do. I am open to critics but I want to reiterate that I am not your enemy, we are not enemies. If there is one person who wants to uplift any sorry situation of Filipino workers here, that is me. If my style of writing is quite harsh, yet no one can discount the fact that what I speak of are true and real happenings. I know what I am doing, I know what is libellous or not and I do not regret anything that I wrote about. Lastly, let me quote a fellow media person: “Journalists or media practitioners are messengers who bring in the necessary information and this is a point that most of the people missed to understand. Instead of listening and doing something about the message, they are shooting or attacking the messengers. They make possible attempts to curtail the freedom of expression, that media have become easy targets of attacks. They fail to see that media persons are carrying out the role as a watchdog of democracy.� ON behalf of the whole staff of Tinig Pinoy, my heartfelt thanks to Politis for giving this publication for the entire Filipino community, Thank you all and mabuhay!