PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid Like many friends on Facebook, I have mixed feelings about this social media platform. But despite controversies surrounding it, such as its alleged manipulation of privacy, dissemination of disinformation, and potential dangers such as identity theft, I still...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid While going through the Christmas and New Year greetings on Facebook and the social media, I can’t help noticing how the latter have become so creative in providing us a wide choice of greetings through “Emoji” and packaged wise sayings and literary...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid Tonight, we bid goodbye to 2022 as we welcome 2023 and the Year of the Black Rabbit which officially begins Jan. 22. According to the Chinese horoscope, it will be a happy year of longevity, discretion, and good luck. The Black Water Rabbit is a harbinger of...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid The passing of Jose Maria Sison, founding leader of the 54-year old Communist Party of the Philippines, one of the world’s longest-running insurgencies, makes us pause with the query – “Who will fill the empty chair?” Who can match Joma’s charisma,...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid In 2018, the Supreme Court granted the petitions of Batangas Gov. Hermilando Mandanas and the late former Bataan Gov. Enrique Garcia, Jr. that the local government units (LGUs) internal allotment or IRA (now called the national tax allotment or NTA) should come...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid At last, the proponents of the controversial House Bill 6398 heeded the voice of the people, most of them pensioners from the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and the Social Security System (SSS). They are wage earners and ordinary employees who...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid The Department of Education’s mandatory order of a return by all public and private schools to in-person learning was a response to public perception about the relative advantages of the latter. Only schools with “highly exceptional” circumstances may...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid We have been in this state of “food insecurity” since the pandemic, but it had been aggravated recently due to acceleration of inflation to 6.9 percent in September 2022, from 6.3 percent in August 2022. Food prices have increased by 9.4 percent last...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid In this age of disinformation and misinformation, I am sure many share my yearning for answers to questions about how to survive in the decades ahead. Should we merely accept the consequences – growing distrust, hopelessness, and gradual dehumanization? ...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid I do hope that the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (KWF) reverses its decision regarding the five books, the publication and distribution of which it had stopped. As its memorandum signed by Carmelita C. Abdurahman, KWF’s commissioner for Programs and Projects,...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid Certainly, every thinking Filipino now realizes that we are confronted with a “tsunami of disinformation,” a growing threat to our national survival. Thus, while policy makers and lawmakers are called upon to prepare frameworks in prioritizing our...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid The nation mourns the passing of the country’s 12th president, certainly one of our greatest, dearly loved and admired not only for his contribution in uplifting the country, but, most of all, for reviving the pride and morale of the Filipino people. FVR...
