It is the day before the start of the Simbang Gabi. Today all over the land, people will be preparing to wake up before dawn tomorrow to go to church, perhaps stand in the churchyard when there is no more space inside the church to be part of the first mass of the nine-day Simbang Gabi which will...
More than a month after the November 3 presidential election, United States President Donald Trump led a rally in Valdosta, Georgia, in support of two Republican senators facing a runoff election on January 5, 2021, against two Democratic opponents. No one received a majority of votes last November...
It was the first injection with the first approved anti-COVID-19 vaccine, a historic event to millions all over the world who have lived in the shadow of death caused by the raging pandemic. A 90-year-old British lady. Margaret Keenan, received the first shot at the University Hospital Coventry at...
We are in the second week of December and the Bicameral Conference Committee of Congress should be ready with the final form of the 2021 General Appropriations Bill by next week and place it before President Duterte for his signature so the national budget for 2021 will be ready for implementation...
With so many problems facing the nation during this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we hope we will not face the additional problem of high prices this Christmas season. The nation’s inflation rate has been rising steadily since October, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority. It was 2.5...
With the Trump administration fast drawing to a close in the United States, President Donald Trump has been reported to be discussing a move to pardon three of his children – Donald Jr. Eric, and Ivanka along with her husband Kared Kushner — along with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani....
The country along with the rest of the world needs a COVID-19 vaccine. The government has banned mass gatherings where the virus can spread. But even now, there are so many living in cramped shanties in neighborhoods with narrow alleys and they are all extremely vulnerable. COVID-19 has already...
It is now all in the hands of a Bicameral Conference Committee which will draw up the final form of the 2021 General Appropriations Bill (GAB). The committee met Tuesday on the House and the Senate versions of the national budget bill of P4.5 trillion. “We will encode it by December 9 and have...
The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) began closing intersections in 2003 under a program called “Big Rotonda Scheme,” initially along Quezon Ave. from España to Commonwealth Ave., then along Epifanio delos Santos Ave. (EDSA). The goal was to speed up traffic along main thoroughfares....
Two dams were in the news last week – or rather, an old established dam in Isabela and a proposed one in Quezon Province. The Magat Dam in the Magat River, the largest tributary of the Cagayan River, the longest river in the Philippines, was built in 1975-1982 primarily for irrigation,...
In the face of the bad news from Europe and the United States (US), where a second wave of COVID-19 infections is sweeping many communities, it is reassuring to know that vaccines are now being mass-produced and many countries are drawing up agreements with the vaccine producers. Two US vaccines...
In the wake of the widespread floods in Cagayan and Isabela caused by rains from a series of storms and typhoons¸ a number of projects have been proposed by various sectors, including dredging of the Cagayan River, construction of a temporary embankment, and reforestation of the surrounding...
