PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid While going over activities being planned for the forthcoming Philippine Quincentennial, I suddenly recalled an observation made during the Globalization Lecture series held 20 years after James Fallows wrote his essay, “A Damaged...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid Admitting that the country today is “sinking deeper and deeper” and losing P2 billion a day due to COVID-19, President Duterte asked his economic managers to present a clear plan to address the high inflation and the worsening crisis. Senate Minority...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid At a webinar last Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes chaired by Senator Francis Pangilinan held a hearing on the timeliness and procedural issues as well as...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid The world watched with great interest and expectation as America’s 46 th president was sworn in during a toned-downbut meaningful inaugural program. Amidst the 200,000 state and territory flags installed at the National Mall, to represent thousands of...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid For the nth time, our congressmen have again brought up the controversial issue of constitutional change. But is now the “right constitutional moment”? Our 1987 Constitution is regarded as one of the most enduring constitutions in the...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid That the present state of impunity had reached an alarming level was shown by the recent filing of resolutions by six senators who asked for a legislative...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid 2021 is the Year of the Metal Ox which is an inauspicious or boring year. Nonetheless, since the ox is an animal that “delivers dedicated consistent labor,” it is deemed to be a lucky year. Someone had earlier written that the worst Christmas was in 1941...
PAGBABAGO Faith is allegiance, commitment, service for the thought, belief conviction translates into action. There is allegiance to comm-unity, it’s culture and tradition. There is allegiance to one’s own people when one is their “public servant” or “servant leader” – Gemino H. Abad...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid A most disturbing pre-Christmas event that occurred on International Human Rights Day last December 10,and on the second day of the 2020 World Press Freedom conference, was the arrest of Lady Ann “Icy” Salem in...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid Today, Filipino women and their sisters from all over the world who participated at the 4th UN global women’s conference in Beijing will meet again (our Philippine group through Zoom), this time to exchange experiences on what happened to the Declaration and...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid I thought that there was a show of great fervor and enthusiasm by the people during last Monday’s celebration of the 157 th birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio. Or could it be just my own perception, having been in solitary quarantine...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid The red alert is up. Here is the situation today: Child malnutrition in the country is one of the highest in the world, with one in three children below 5 years stunted. In 2018, at least 48.2 percent of infants aged 6-11...
