BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Recently, the Senate Committee of the Whole (COW), led by Senate President Sotto, conducted two extensive hearings on the African Swine Fever (ASF) which continues to be a perennial threat not only to the local hog industry, but also the country’s food security....
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Earlier this week, the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) signed a joint memorandum circular (JMC)...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara The recent Decoding Global Talent survey by JobStreet has revealed some interesting employment trends amid the pandemic. For one, there is a global downtrend observed in people’s willingness to work abroad. Where in the 2018 edition of the survey 57 percent of...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Last February, in anticipation of International Women’s Day on March 8 and National Women’s Month here in the Philippines, Grant Thornton International released its 2021 Women in Business report. The Philippines topped the said study for the second...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Three hundred and sixty-five days later, locked in, locked up, locked down, Baguio City nestled between the clouds and the trees is both a sanctuary and an escape. Incredible spring weather, the nicest people, the most delightful place in the time of COVID-19 – as a...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara The COVID-19 pandemic has caused much human suffering. But it has also catalyzed notable feats of human cooperation, ingenuity, and selflessness. Or as we put it succinctly—“bayanihan.” For instance, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and select...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara According to February 24 Bloomberg data, some 213 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have already been administered in 95 countries. And with an average inoculation rate of 6.1 million a day, it was estimated that it will take 5.1 years before global herd immunity —...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Last week, we wrote about the myriad ways the COVID-19 pandemic has made our youth even more vulnerable than before. Over the past year, this was manifested in increasing cases of online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC), teenage pregnancies, failure to...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Now that vaccines against the COVID-19 virus will soon be available, some may think we can finally lower our guard and put the pandemic behind us. But it’s very possible that this mindset is what’s driving the recent uptake in new cases in the country. Just...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara The future is digital. When the COVID-19 pandemic required strict quarantine guidelines, it was no surprise that business, financial, and even personal transactions went online. One needs only to look into how more Filipinos now regularly use their mobile phones and...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara The heart of Philippine culture is the family, and children are often the most cherished and protected. Hence, when a child is born with a congenital health condition, or suddenly develops a serious disease, it is an extremely difficult situation for parents and...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Unlike Mark and Matthew who situate Jesus’ homecoming in the latter part of his ministry (Mk 6:1-6; Mt 13:54-58), Luke transposes it to the beginning. Jesus’ sermon in the synagogue of Nazareth is programmatic of his entire ministry. Jesus’ teaching is the fulfllment not...
