#MINDANAO John Tria At this point, many companies have taken stock of what happened in 2022 and completed their annual or strategic plans for 2023, and perhaps beyond. For many, school and family reunions top the holiday agenda for the last two weeks of the year, events gleefully anticipated since...
EDITORIAL As Christmas Day nears, here’s a bit of good news from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The country’s employment rate in October 2022 stood at 95.5 percent, “the highest rate recorded since January 2020, and registered to have bounced back from pre-pandemic levels.” This...
‘There and back again’ refers to a crucial point in a journey in which we may find ourselves looking at where we have been to make sense of where we are and where we are going “There and back again,” the underlying theme of this special holiday issue, is the subtitle to J.R.R. Tolkien’s...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL The Manila Bulletin, led by President and CEO Emil Yap III and Publisher Sonny Coloma, sent a 17-man strong contingent to the Asia-Pacific WAN-IFRA (World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers) Digital Media conference in Singapore last week....
Four days before classes for the incoming school year start next week, the Department of Education (DepEd) has recorded 22.5 million learners from both public and private schools. (DepEd file photo) Latest data from the Learner Information System (LIS) as of Aug. 18, Thursday showed that the number...
The Las Piñas City government launched the PinasLakas vaccination program of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos to prepare the students for the resumption of face-to-face classes (F2F) in November. According to Paul San Miguel, chief of Public Information Office (PIO), the Department of...
With only a week remaining before classes begin, Alliance of Filipino women, Gabriela, expressed their doubt and concerns over the Department of Education’s (DepEd) “hasty” preparations for the School Year (SY) 2022-2023. (DepEd File Photo) Gabriela Spokesperson Rose Bihag, in a press...
Ahead of the implementation of face-to-face classes, health reform advocate Dr. Anthony “Tony” Leachon urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to prepare the ventilation of schools in the Philippines to protect teaching, non-teaching personnel, as well as the students from Covid-19. (Photo...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Recently, we received some good news that among several bills that recently lapsed into law was the increase in the social pension for indigent senior citizens from the present ₱500 to ₱1,000 per month or from ₱6,000 to ₱12,000 annually. We filed this bill...
BAGUIO CITY (PNA) – The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) in Abra said it has closed most evacuation centers as people started returning to their homes and businesses went back to their normal operations more than a week after a strong quake jolted the province. Arnel...
Reviewing quarantine, isolation, and why these are still important CLINICAL MATTERS After a very quiet few months following the Omicron wave in January, cases are once again on the rise. Many of us were expecting thousands of cases shortly after elections but this never materialized. Indeed, WHO...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has resumed his presidential activities following his week-long mandatory isolation after testing positive for Covid-19. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos swears in Ambassador Manuel Antonio Teehankee as the Philippine Permanent Representative to the...
