PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid One national figure that many of us miss, especially during these times when democracy continues to be eroded and “devitalized,” is the late Supreme Court Justice Cecilia Munoz Palma. During martial law and even years after, she stood out, speaking the...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid I write this as “Ulysses” had just swept across Central Luzon, Bicol, and Metro Manila leaving a swathe of devastation from the heavy winds and rains it brought. Angat, Caliraya, and La Mesa dams have already reached their full...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid As of time of writing, the counting in the US presidential election is still going on, but it seems like it will be a Biden presidency. The count shows Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden with 253 electoral votes over Trump’s 213. And he leads by 63,000 in...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid A day after my piece on development communication and its history, where I wrote about UP professor emeritus Nora C. Quebral and her pioneering work that elevated the field as both a science and a discipline, came out, she passed away at 94....
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid While Senator Imee Marcos’ description of development communication as “cute and archaic may have flustered some of our colleagues, and that the remarks may be somewhat demeaning, they may be the needed “trigger” to make...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid The various events happening in the country today remind me of Samuel Beckett’s play about two friends waiting for an imaginary friend who never came. They try to amuse themselves to make the wait bearable,...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid I thought that the holding of a forthcoming global summit, “Negotiating the New Normal”was timely. It is intended for everyone who believes that we need to prepare ourselves as we enter a new world. For...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid T he recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) poll which showed hunger at record-high 30.7% should send alarm bells to our leaders and to every Filipino. Today, 7.6 million families are experiencing “involuntary hunger” at least once a...
Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid It was the President’s debut at the United Nations. And he delivered a great speech, which will be remembered not only for its elegant prose but because what he said was a much welcomed message of hope even if unexpected. This was before a virtual audience of the...
Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid PAGBABAGO This truth we already know – that economic growth is bound to end with or without the coronavirus. It is said that the current global population would require the equivalent of five Earth-like planets to support the present global population. Which means that...
Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid PAGBABAGO That our country has been in a perpetual “conflict state” is a truism which today should not be regarded as inconsequential. A policy decision area which has faced the country for the past six months of the pandemic is that of trying to balance the...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid I first met Gilda in 1996 although I had been a fan of this multi-awarded icon for quite sometime. I have read many of her writings, including three that I had retrieved from my library collection which had shrank to 15 percent of the original size as I had...
