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 ...
The world may still be facing the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are other problems that continue to plague us, which may emerge as a bigger emergency to the people of the planet. One such problem is pollution, about which the United Nations recently conducted a worldwide survey, its...
The impeachment of former United States President Donald Trump continues to hold the attention of people around the world, although his term ended last January 20 when new President Joseph Biden took his oath of office after winning over Trump in the presidential election of November 3....
The government is now trying to decide when and how much it will further relax restrictions in Metro Manila and other parts of the country. It is not a problem of government alone; it is a problem faced by every individual and every family in this still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Last week, the...
Mass vaccination against COVID-19 has begun in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and several other countries which have been able to acquire millions of doses of the vaccines for their people. These nations had paid in advance even before the vaccine companies had completed their...
The Electric Vehicle Association of the Philippines (EVAP) came out last week with a recommendation to the government to support the electric vehicle sector in reaction to the spate of closures of car-manufacturing plants in the country. It called for support of Senate Bill 1382, the...
Raymart Santiago took his social media followers down memory lane recently, posting a then-and-now photo of him alongside his "Mumbaki" co-stars Joel Torre and Angel Aquino. On Instagram, Raymart arranged the past and present snaps side-by-side, captioning it: "MUMBAKI 1996 25 years and still...
