This weekend, the global number of COVID-19 cases crossed the 16-million mark, with the United States having the most cases at over 4 million. The global death toll was 646,996, the US accounting for nearly a fourth of the total with 146,788....
The President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday listed 21 priority bills he asked Congress to enact in this second regular session of the 18 th Congress. . He again asked Congress to approve a bill reviving the death penalty for drug...
Amid so much news of business closures, job losses, and many nations seeing their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fall to unprecedented levels, it is good to hear positive reports in some sectors, reports of expectations of recovery from the depth to which the COVID-19 pandemic has...
A recent study by researchers of the University of California at San Diego with the University of Toronto, and the Indian Institute of Science found that respiratory droplets from a cough or a sneeze can travel — depending on weather conditions — eight to 13 feet away before evaporating. The...
When President Duterte delivers his State of the Nation Address (SONA) today before Congress in joint session at the Batasan Pambansa in Quezon City, he is likely to touch on so many issues and incidents that have recently affected the nation. Thus we may expect him to mention Congress’ action on...
In the last four months, the government has generally followed the decisions of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) and its decisions have leaned towards shutting down entire regions,...
In these times of uncertainty, when so many institutions, celebrations, and occasions for which we are known as a nation have been upended because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is good to know that President Duterte will carry on the tradition of personally appearing before...
The whole country – the whole world in fact – is reeling from the ill effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, both the death of thousands of people and the economic impact that has sent the country into a recession. And common ordinary folk are suffering from the effects of four straight months of...
Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Wendel Avisado Friday issued Budget Circular 2020-4, upgrading the pay of entry-level nurses from Salary Grade (SG)-11 to SC-15 – from P22,315-P24,391 to P32,053-P34,801 a month. The adjustment is retroactive to January 1, 2020. It covers...
The four months of lockdown that began on March 16 are expected to contract the Philippine economy by 8 percent this year, making it one of the slowest to recover in Asia, according to an assessment by London think tank Capital Economics. The Philippine economy is deemed to have entered a technical...
Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro Locsin Jr. met with China Foreign Minister Wang Yi via teleconferencing last Tuesday, July 14, at the end of which they declared that continuing maritime issues are not the sum total of Philippines-China relations and that...
Starting last April, 1.6 billion young people were shut out of schools due to measures taken by their governments to contain COVID-19, Save the Children said, citing UNESCO data. This is about 90 percent of the world’s entire student population. “For the first time in history,...
