As part of its efforts to reach learners in far-flung areas, the Office of the Vice President (OVP), through its Cagayan Valley Satellite Office, distributed over 2,000 bags to students from different parts of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Nueva Vizcaya this week. Photo from Office...
PAGBABAGO My friend, nonagenarian Polly Cancio turned 99 last May, and is still relatively healthy and able to move around with the help of a caregiver. When she celebrated her last birthday, she cheerfully accepted greetings from friends. We chatted about old times some 49 years...
PAGBABAGO I added another three years to my nine decades a few days ago. As I noted on Facebook, it was an awakening – a sudden realization that I had outlived many of my contemporaries. Once upon a time when I was in my late teens and early 20s, I found myself the youngest among...
PAGBABAGO The Rights of Nature come to mind with the latest report that the Philippines is one of the dangerous countries in Asia for environmental activists. This is due to its having a high number of advocates killed in the region between 2012 to 2023 according to the international watchdog,...
PAGBABAGO I’ve been writing about the Ramon Magsaysay awards which was established in 1957 to perpetuate the memory of one of the most loved presidents of the country and known for his integrity, courage and idealism. Some 348 awardees from various Asian countries representing the fields of...
PAGBABAGO Today marks the end of celebration of important events in history – the birth anniversary of the seventh Philippine president, Ramon Magsaysay, known as the champion of the masses, and the eight-hour funeral procession of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, attended by an estimated two million...
PAGBABAGO Many of us imagine a future that appears achievable except that we are not able to agree on a common direction. In almost all areas – legislature, private sector, community organizations, etc. - we are not lacking in leaders who are competent and able to match peers in other countries...
PAGBABAGO The continuing exodus of teachers to greener pastures is causing another worrisome trend not only in the country but in other countries as well. To date, the Global Report on Teachers estimates that 68.8 million teachers will be needed to fill the global gap, 24.4 million of which are...
PAGBABAGO Latest surveys show that there are 5,000 different indigenous peoples comprising 476 million people or 6.2 percent of the global population. In the Philippines, the 2010 survey showed that we had 14 to 17 million belonging to 110 ethno-linguistic groups concentrated mainly in Luzon. ...
PAGBABAGO There are enough studies about why the country had remained stagnant over the past decades while its neighboring countries in the ASEAN region had galloped ahead in most of the positive indicators of development. We yearn for the good old days when we were much ahead of these countries,...
PAGBABAGO The President’s third State of the Nation had certainly created a desired impact on many of our countrymen – that of feeling good and lifting them from the many frustrations over high prices of goods, high costs of health care, performance of our education system, a continuing lack of...
PAGBABAGO On Monday, the nation will be listening to President Marcos Jr.’s second State of the Nation address. As the country is undergoing several challenges in several fronts, the people are anxiously awaiting what he would promise in the months ahead. Like most leaders in the past, I...
