News from the House of Representatives has been dominated lately by the dispute between Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and Rep. Lord Allan Velasco. The proposed P4.506-trillion national budget was being discussed section by section in the House this week, with plans to approve it by October 14, after...
The country’s biggest mass gathering – the annual Traslacion of the Black Nazarene from the Luneta Park to its shrine, the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo — is still three months away, January 9, 2021, but Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso has started...
Nations around the world have begun to plan for the acquisition of vaccines with which they hope to stop the spread of COVID-19 in their lands. Of 175 proposed vaccines listed by the World Health Organization (WHO), 33 are said to be in their final human trials and two or three in the United...
Last July 6, 2019, President Duterte announced the result of his mediation on the speakership dispute in the House of Representatives. He stressed that he only stepped in because the members of the new 18th Congress could not reach an agreement by themselves and they asked him to help as leader of...
The Teachers' Dignity Coalition (TDC) is understandably concerned about the danger faced by the nation’s teachers when the school year begins on Monday, October 5. “Almost a million teachers who are in charge of serving 24 million learners will be forced to physically interact with parents and...
Today is the start of the last quarter of the year. Government economists and business managers generally expect improved figures in these final three months, making up for any losses in the middle of the year, so that the year-end figures stand out, reflecting progress in the national economy or...
The United Nations celebrated its 75th anniversary last September 21 with the theme “The future we want; the United Nations we need — reaffirming our collective commitment to multilateralism.” Multilateralism is a concept that scholars have long been studying in international relations. It...
It’s still 15 months before the presidential election on May 9, 2022, but some politicians are already talking of postponing the election. This has happened in the past as the sitting president neared the end of his/her term, as if hoping the term, with all its...
Scientists have long established that rising temperatures around the world are spawning more violent storms while melting more ice in the polar regions. And the world is getting hotter because of the carbon emissions billowing daily into the atmosphere from factories of the industrial nations. Last...
September 21 came and went early this week with hardly anyone noticing. This is as it should be. The day martial law was declared in the country in 1972 does not deserve to be marked with any kind of memorial ceremony. We used to observe a day called Bataan Day, commemorating the day Bataan and...
President Duterte has decided it is best to maintain the one-meter rule on physical distancing in public transport. The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) had allowed a shorter distance of .75 meters to enable public transport to accommodate more...
Hundreds of dead fish started floating to the surface of Manila Bay near the Baseco compound in Manila Bay Thursday morning, September 17, after a night of heavy rains over Manila. Because of the recent controversy over the dumping of crushed dolomite to look like white sand along Roxas Boulevard,...
