Domestic travel without age restrictions is still allowed in the country but tourists should observe stricter health and safety protocols amid reports of local transmission of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Delta variant, the Department of Tourism (DOT) said. DOT Secretary Bernadette...
Celebrities Anne Curtis and Catriona Gray recently joined the UNICEF in urging the House of Representatives and the Senate to prioritize the immediate passage of a law that increases the age of sexual consent in the country from 12 to at least 16. On Twitter, the Miss Universe 2018 wrote: "Calling...
EDITORS DESK I didn’t know I was old until I reached my late 40s when, among my staff of 20 somethings, a girl got my goat making fun of an old song I was trying to reference during a heated exchange of opinions. She tried to one-up me by dismissing the song as irrelevant, something she was born...
Nancy is right. Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat gave this admission Monday, June 14 after she was called out by Senator Nancy Binay for the non-wearing of face mask and face shield during the former's encounter with social media star Scarlet Snow Belo. (Photos from...
National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 chief implementer, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. acknowledged on Thursday night, May 13 that the entire population of the Philippines would have to be vaccinated if it wants to totally eliminate the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Vaccine czar, Secretary...
She is young, beautiful, talented, successful. For sure haters would think twice saying something bad against Donnalyn Bartolome. How can they? Ah, but the idle mind is the devil's playground. For lack of anything to hurl at the 26-year-old, they recently decided to age-shame her. Yes. At 26. View...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Or, when they think you are super annuated, so obsolete and defunct! By “they” I mean not only my grandchildren, grand nieces and nephews, but also my own children, even if they themselves will be senior citizens in less than a decade. I must look rather frail...
Chess never stops with or without lockdown. The National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) will give Filipino chess players something to look forward to amid the pandemic as it lined up a series of online tournaments this year. The first one launched was the Southern Luzon Leg of the...
It would be hard to write about Efren R. Abueg , foremost fictionist in Filipino, without getting personal. His works, spanning from the seminal short story “ Kamatayan ni Tiyo Samuel ” (Palanca First Prize for Short Story in Filipino in 1967) to the novel Huwag Mong Sakyan ang Buhawi...
