My ‘bunso’ Fred de la Rosa

HE called me “kuya” and I called him “bunso.” It was to show how intimate and close our friendship was. Last Thursday afternoon, bunso quietly passed away after suffering a cardiac arrest  at the Manila Doctors Hospital.

Bunso was Fred de la Rosa, former publisher and editor of The Manila Times and a long time-media colleague of mine I called him bunso because I am older by seven years; He was 80 and would have been 81 on May 19.