Finding Answers Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina Last week’s southwest monsoon habagat that was intensified by Typhoon Fabian brought more rain than the unforgettable Typhoon Ondoy, yet Marikina was spared from massive flooding. The continuous rainfall at 2 a.m. last Saturday recorded at 134...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Tomorrow, July 26, President Rodrigo Duterte will deliver his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA), with the COVID-19 plague still hovering over our country and around the world. It will be the second time that our nation...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar It is true what Indian writer Anita Desai once wrote: “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” Going to other places are not temporary destinations where you merely stop and go. They stay with you — the beauty and the...
Finding Answers Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina The recent World Bank (WB) report of an “unacceptably poor school climate” in our country where 80 percent of Filipino schoolchildren “do not know what they should know” has been hard to swallow for education officials. Education Secretary...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The Asian, European, African, Latin American, Australian, and US parliaments could organize a program and send delegations to the North Korea legislature, their Ministers of Agriculture and Tourism might interact with their North Korean...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay Messaging has never been this administration’s strongest point. This has been evident since day one of the government-enforced lockdown, when unclear and conflicting directives from senior officials only added to the fear, confusion, and...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar A statement released by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and picked up by various news organizations has stirred the pot among Filipino netizens online. In the statement dated July 9, 2021, the DTI’s Bureau of Philippine Standards...
An infrastructure-oriented think tank on Tuesday, July 13 said that unless former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV can present solid proof on his allegations against the construction firm owend by the family of Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, Trillanes cannot debunk the aboveboard record of the...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House (Remarks delivered at the UPF International Leadership Conference 2021 ‘Toward Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula: Peace and Security’ on July 7-8, 2021) Thanks to modern communication technology, we are gathered here...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Thursday, July 8, that it “is crafting” supplemental guidelines to pave the way for the inclusion of the former violent extremists as beneficiaries of the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program or E-CLIP. REBEL RETURNEES —...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma At his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) in 2014, President Benigno S. Aquino III rallied the nation to carry on with efforts to demonstrate that, “As long as our faith and trust remain strong, as long as we serve each other’s strength, we will continue to prove...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay Since last year, government has stubbornly refused all appeals to provide another round of cash aid or “ayuda” on the grounds that it did not have the money. Then we learn that government failed to utilize P18 billion in funds already...
