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. ...
IT'S THE SMALL THINGS The start of the school year is rolling out. Schools are opening their doors one after the other. As children go back to school, they normally are always overwhelmed with a mix of emotions. From pure excitement to fear for first timers, anxiety, sadness, happiness – it is a...
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...
PAGBABAGO Veteran journalist Vergel Santos’ recent call for citizen action is a timely reminder for all of us who are concerned about the future of the country. At a recent forum hosted by the Policy Center at the University of the Philippines, Vergel who has been a journalist for six...
PAGBABAGO In its 2021 Global Report, International IDEA cites three of the world’s largest democracies – United States, Brazil, and India as “backsliding democracies.” In other words, the study found that there are signs of “authoritarianism” and other indices of backsliding. The...
PAGBABAGO The release of the 2022 results of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA-OECD) on creative thinking in 64 participating countries had again created a stir as it showed Filipino students placing second to the last. The concern is understandable as...
PAGBABAGO Since it started four years ago, the Digital News Report (DNR) Survey by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism had shown significant changes in news media readership and viewership. More Filipinos or 47 percent rated themselves as “interested in the news,” an...
