FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina It’s understandable why an exasperated President Duterte has often thought of simply giving up and resigning over rampant corruption in the country. Despite all the laws and severe penalties against dishonest public officials and employees, endemic...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House (Remarks of former speaker Jose de Venecia, founding chairman of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), co-chairman, International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace (IAPP); and special envoy of President...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar I was a member of the House of Representatives for nine years, from 1992 to 2001. I was always been a proud member of the lower chamber especially during the 11th Congress which I had the honor of leading as speaker from July 27, 1998 to...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Russian Ambassador to the Philippines Igor Khovaev concludes his tour of duty in the Philippines with the Philippines-Russia ties in a remarkably robust condition since the establishment of our two countries diplomatic relations in 1976....
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay The prestigious John Hopkins University has released a list of countries with the most COVID-19 cases. The Philippines, with over 300,000 cases and new cases being recorded in the thousands daily, ranked 20th in the list. Another list by a...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar It has been almost 7 months since government imposed a lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was March 15 when a General Community Quarantine (GCQ) was first implemented. Since then we have experienced ECQ (Enhanced Community Quarantine),...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina That one in every three Filipinos went hungry last month—and is probably experiencing hunger up to this time—is horrifying, to say the least. The alarming hunger rate of 30.7 percent, affecting 7.6 million families in the country, has...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House In our previous column, we discussed our founding and launching in Manila in September, 2000, of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), to serve as a forum for dialogue, understanding, and cooperation on issues...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay The speaker appears to have managed to quiet down the recent unrest among his peers in the House of Representatives, but not without again laying bare – like a gaping wound on our body politic – his long-held obsession with power and pork....
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina If anything can go wrong, it will. The essence of Murphy’s Law might seem all too real with just a few days to go before basic education classes in our public school system are set to open amid the swirling perfect storm of the coronavirus pandemic....
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House (Remarks of former Speaker Jose de Venecia, c o-chairman of the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace and special envoy of the Philippine President to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and for Intercultural...
Former Senate President Manny Villar Of Trees And Forest Another casualty in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is our formal education system. The month of June every year is usually the time when millions of Filipino students troop back to their schools and learn. But because COVID-19 prevents any...
