Christmas Eve is a special day to Filipinos. After going to church for midnight mass, families gather for “Noche Buena, ” an annual get-together for members of the family who may not have seen each other for months or even years. They exchange gifts and generally enjoy one another’s company....
In the incoming year, we hope to see a substantial government effort to increase rice production in the country. There have been “short-term improvements in palay production,” according to policy advocacy group Action for Economic Reforms (AER), but we are a long way from achieving “domestic...
This has been a very difficult time for the nation’s public school students and the Department of Education (DepEd), like everything else in the national life. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the suspension of all normal activity, especially those involving the gathering of people. The opening of...
Fifty-one days after the November 3 national elections in the United States, the elected members of the National Electoral College assembled in their respective states last Monday, December 14, and cast their votes for president and vice president of the United States. The voting result in...
Five years ago, the nations of the world, including the Philippines, met in Paris, France, on the world’s climate problem -- rising world temperatures due to carbon emissions from the world’s industries, causing the polar ice to melt, ocean levels to rise, and spawning more...
We are now in the last two weeks of December, 2020. After a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said three regions of the world continue to have rising infections and deaths – Europe with a nearly 100 percent increase in deaths per week; the Americas,...
It is the day before the start of the Simbang Gabi. Today all over the land, people will be preparing to wake up before dawn tomorrow to go to church, perhaps stand in the churchyard when there is no more space inside the church to be part of the first mass of the nine-day Simbang Gabi which will...
More than a month after the November 3 presidential election, United States President Donald Trump led a rally in Valdosta, Georgia, in support of two Republican senators facing a runoff election on January 5, 2021, against two Democratic opponents. No one received a majority of votes last November...
It was the first injection with the first approved anti-COVID-19 vaccine, a historic event to millions all over the world who have lived in the shadow of death caused by the raging pandemic. A 90-year-old British lady. Margaret Keenan, received the first shot at the University Hospital Coventry at...
We are in the second week of December and the Bicameral Conference Committee of Congress should be ready with the final form of the 2021 General Appropriations Bill by next week and place it before President Duterte for his signature so the national budget for 2021 will be ready for implementation...
With so many problems facing the nation during this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we hope we will not face the additional problem of high prices this Christmas season. The nation’s inflation rate has been rising steadily since October, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority. It was 2.5...
With the Trump administration fast drawing to a close in the United States, President Donald Trump has been reported to be discussing a move to pardon three of his children – Donald Jr. Eric, and Ivanka along with her husband Kared Kushner — along with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani....
