The Senate approved last Monday Senate Bill 1886, to expand the jurisdiction of first and second-level courts of the land with the goal of addressing delays in the disposition of cases due to overloading in certain courts. SB 1886 is a consolidated measure from SB 1359 filed by Sen. Richard Gordon...
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III commended the Bureau of Customs on its anniversary celebration last Tuesday. The bureau performed “extremely well” in 2020, he said, despite the difficulties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The bureau has long suffered from a reputation as historically...
The Supreme Court, in a decision dated January 28, 2021, affirmed the notices of disallowance by the Commission on Audit (COA) on some P204.7 million granted by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) to its officials and its employees in various kinds of benefits in...
Since the historic Paris Climate Agreement of December, 2015, many nations around the world have taken concrete steps to carry out its goal of reducing carbon emissions – mostly from industries and from motor vehicles cars – around the world so as to limit the rise in world temperatures that...
We already have the Local Absentee Voting Act which allows certain mediamen, police, and teachers to cast their votes early so they carry on with their duties on Election Day. Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon has now proposed that certain other sectors – People with...
The Philippine National Volleyball Federation Inc. (PNVFI) has prepared a 10-point goal strategy to strengthen the sport in the country. PNVFI President Tats Suzara said the agenda touches issues from the grassroots up to the elite level, including making volleyball the number one family sport...
Now is not the time to implement the Child Car Seat Law. There is no need to enforce it now when current community quarantine rules prohibit children below 10 years of age from leaving their houses, Sen. Lawrence “Bong” Go said this weekend. The law, RA-11229, the Child Safety in Motor Vehicles...
The National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC) approved last Tuesday a resolution banning plastic soft-drinks straws and plastic stirrers, now commonly used in restaurants in the country. These single-use plastic materials end up in huge volumes in the nation’s garbage dumps and...
The National Capital Region (NCR) – Metro Manila – and 14 other regions in the country will remain under General Community Quarantine (GCQ) for another month until February 28, the government decided last week. We had been hoping that the GCQ would be eased into Modified GCQ (MGCQ) which would...
We are closely following developments in Myanmar, for a number of reasons. It is a brother nation with which we share many things in common. We are neighbors in our corner of the globe, a group of nations in Southeast Asia on the southwestern part of the vast Pacific Ocean. Myanmar, with over...
The United States under new President Joseph Biden has joined the growing world movement to combat climate change. In his first week in office, he called for a “whole-of-government approach” to achieve this end. He ordered all federal agencies to purchase electricity that is...
The Manila Bulletin observes its 121 st anniversary today. Its first issue came out on February 2, 1900, one of a number of newspapers set up at the start of the American occupation in 1899 that followed 350 years of the Spanish colonial era. The newspapers ...
