PAGBABAGO In the second SONA, the President received over 60 applauses. Even before he could finish his sentence, the loyal allies in the Batasan Hall were already ready with their handclap. Meanwhile, over 3,000 people patiently waited for hours at Commonwealth Avenue. They decried the...
PAGBABAGO A few months ago, the House of Representatives initiated another move to introduce changes in the 1987 Constitution through a Constitutional Convention. This was sent to the Senate. But the President noted that this was not his priority. During the past three decades after the...
PAGBABAGO After going through the pandemic and several other challenges this past decade, I began to wonder what the country would be like 50 years from now. This is not too far off as we have been going through monumental economic, political, and technological changes. Over the past eight decades...
PAGBABAGO Let me add a few thoughts on the recent tourism “love” campaign that turned sour because of what the Department of Tourism admits was an “unfortunate oversight.” It’s quite an expensive mistake and I hope we shall truly learn our lesson. I think most of us know that it would...
PAGBABAGO Our national development goals over the past years have focused on developing a “globally competitive economy, inclusive growth, a high trust and resilient society, an improved quality of life in both urban and rural communities, and to graduate to a knowledge economy.” In short, to...
PAGBABAGO Those of us who continue to monitor the country’s performance in global surveys on competitiveness, education, media freedom, environment which are deemed critical in assessing the health of the country, will be dismayed by outcomes showing that the Philippines had slipped several...
PAGBABAGO The Digital News Report 2023, an annual survey by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, has just been released according to Yvonne T. Chua, professor at the University of the Philippines who authored the Philippine country study. As in the past, it presents a bleak picture...
PAGBABAGO There is an increasing awareness today about the role of architecture – that it is more than just building and designing, and that it has a social task. This socially conscious task, among others, is creating awareness of people’s needs and mobilizing the latter to come up with...
PAGBABAGO I start this piece with thoughts of needed caution and watchfulness by every Filipino citizen. The big news this week was the approval by the joint congressional committee of the Maharlika Investment Fund or Sovereign Wealth Fund, which was introduced as a bill six months ago. With 279-6...
PAGBABAGO I have just completed the manuscript for my autobiography. When I started writing it last October, it was in the form of memoirs, a selection of memories in my life journey. But I started covering more events chronologically so someone suggested I should describe it as such. Many of...
PAGBABAGO After the several encounters between the Chinese maritime vessels and our own Philippine Coast Guard ships in the West Philippine Sea, former Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose L. Cuisia Jr. urges our government to bring the reports on the recent skirmishes to the UN. And to gather...
PAGBABAGO According to the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II), its primary goal is to implement the 1987 Constitution’s mandate to provide a “policy environment” of strengthening academic freedom,” and thus, higher education should have less regulation. Thus, it...
