The PIID 2024 to 2025 Board of Trustees (Photo courtesy of PIID) A new design era unfolds for the Philippine Institute of Interior Designers, marked by its oath-taking ceremony for the 2024-2025 Board of Trustees on Feb. 6, 2024, at the historic Goldenberg Mansion in Malacañan grounds, Manila. The...
Yesterday’s 100th birthday celebration of Juan Ponce Enrile, fondly called Manong Johnny, who serves presently as the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel, calls attention to longevity of Filipinos. On Feb. 17, Whang-od Oggay, a Filipino cultural icon, will mark her 107th birthday. According to...
Today, Feb. 14, millions of Filipinos will observe not only Valentine’s Day, but also Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lenten season. As Filipinos embark on the solemn journey of Lent, marked by the ritual of Ash Wednesday, the significance of this observance extends beyond religious boundaries,...
Interior and Local Government Secretary Benjamin Abalos, Jr. has sounded the alarm. Based on a World Bank report, 2.7 million tons of plastic waste materials produced in the Philippines end up in its own waters. He warned that this “could spell disaster to marine life, especially on coral...
Recently, debates on Charter change between Senate and House leaders have made the headlines. The Senate passed a resolution rejecting the people’s initiative mode of Charter change, while some House of Representatives leaders have adopted a divergent viewpoint. Since the country gained...
Exactly 124 years ago today, the first issue of the Manila Bulletin came out. Carson C. Taylor, a teacher from Illinois, who had served in the US Army during the Spanish-American War, set it up on Feb. 2, 1900 as a shipping journal to give “the public accurate and reliable shipping and commercial...
A person’s ability to grow, to learn, do well in school, earn well, and contribute to society, starts during the child’s first 1,000 days of life. This is when a child’s brain begins to grow and develop and when the foundations for lifelong health are built. This is according to...
Last week, on January 12, the Department of Education (DepEd) launched Catch-Up Fridays, a program “to strengthen foundational, social, and other relevant skills necessary to realize the objectives of the basic education curriculum.” The program title conveyed in three words a problem that will...
A sustained crackdown against overloaded trucks and trailers, which threaten road safety and can result in fatal road accidents, was ordered early this week by the Land Transportation Office (LTO). In the national highways, an overloaded truck is an accident waiting to happen because its...
After the holidays, the most obvious problem that needs a lifestyle change is not one’s weight. It is how one can lessen household waste and contribute to the reduction of the garbage that will have to be disposed, with a big chunk finding its way to polluting bodies of water. There is no...
It’s still too early to respond to the question, but it seems that local government units (LGUs) would soon have a new “purpose” once the new year sets in. On Christmas Day, Malacañang “gifted” the nation with the news that President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has instructed national...
The quest to eradicate poverty is an ongoing challenge that has confounded governments worldwide for centuries. Even the sharpest minds, guided by science, math, and technology are still finding it difficult to find an encompassing solution to lift the lives of 700 million people out of...
