PAGBABAGO After going through the pandemic and several other challenges this past decade, I began to wonder what the country would be like 50 years from now. This is not too far off as we have been going through monumental economic, political, and technological changes. Over the past eight decades...
PAGBABAGO Let me add a few thoughts on the recent tourism “love” campaign that turned sour because of what the Department of Tourism admits was an “unfortunate oversight.” It’s quite an expensive mistake and I hope we shall truly learn our lesson. I think most of us know that it would...
PAGBABAGO Our national development goals over the past years have focused on developing a “globally competitive economy, inclusive growth, a high trust and resilient society, an improved quality of life in both urban and rural communities, and to graduate to a knowledge economy.” In short, to...
PAGBABAGO Those of us who continue to monitor the country’s performance in global surveys on competitiveness, education, media freedom, environment which are deemed critical in assessing the health of the country, will be dismayed by outcomes showing that the Philippines had slipped several...
PAGBABAGO The Digital News Report 2023, an annual survey by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, has just been released according to Yvonne T. Chua, professor at the University of the Philippines who authored the Philippine country study. As in the past, it presents a bleak picture...
PAGBABAGO There is an increasing awareness today about the role of architecture – that it is more than just building and designing, and that it has a social task. This socially conscious task, among others, is creating awareness of people’s needs and mobilizing the latter to come up with...
PAGBABAGO I start this piece with thoughts of needed caution and watchfulness by every Filipino citizen. The big news this week was the approval by the joint congressional committee of the Maharlika Investment Fund or Sovereign Wealth Fund, which was introduced as a bill six months ago. With 279-6...
PAGBABAGO I have just completed the manuscript for my autobiography. When I started writing it last October, it was in the form of memoirs, a selection of memories in my life journey. But I started covering more events chronologically so someone suggested I should describe it as such. Many of...
PAGBABAGO After the several encounters between the Chinese maritime vessels and our own Philippine Coast Guard ships in the West Philippine Sea, former Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose L. Cuisia Jr. urges our government to bring the reports on the recent skirmishes to the UN. And to gather...
PAGBABAGO According to the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II), its primary goal is to implement the 1987 Constitution’s mandate to provide a “policy environment” of strengthening academic freedom,” and thus, higher education should have less regulation. Thus, it...
PAGBABAGO When the international community celebrates World Press Freedom Day (WPD) on May 3, it will be facing rising conflict and violence, threats to health and the environment, as well as continuing disinformation and misinformation. Adding to these challenges is the growing inequality between...
PAGBABAGO April is Filipino Food Month. And we remember among others, Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda’s commitment in pursuing our rich culinary heritage when last year, she introduced Senate Bill 244 or the Philippine Culinary Heritage Act which is geared towards cultivating and...
