THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares The implementation of a truck ban by the Province of Rizal commenced this past week. As we explained in one of our recent columns, the ban covers trucks and other vehicles hauling products from the province’s large mining and quarrying entities. Nearly 200 such...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares The proverbial “light at the end of the tunnel” seems to be shining brighter as we entered the first month of 2021. That light has inspired much hope and has strengthened our faith in the possibility that 2021 shall be the year of our economic and social...
Dr. Jun Ynares THE VIEW FROM RIZAL “Why are you so strongly opposed to mining?” “If you stop mining, you will slow down economic development.” “You cannot void an action of a national government agency.” These are some of the text messages we have been getting over the past few weeks....
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares For the nth time, Rizal Province and Antipolo City were named Most Competitive Province and Most Competitive Component City, respectively, by the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) Competitiveness Bureau for the year 2020. The distinction is given to local...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “What do you think: Will 2021 be a much better year than 2020?” As the year draws to a close, a good number of friends and fellow Antipoleños have been asking me that question. I have a hard time finding the right answer. Two reasons. First, that question is...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares In 2011, our Sunday column began a tradition. Every year, at around this time, I share with our readers a letter I wrote to my eldest daughter, Cassandra. It was a Christmas Letter. I wrote a Christmas Letter to my eldest daughter, Cassandra. She was just three...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares Two recent developments sparked Hope for many. The first was a Senate Committee hearing which looked into the causes of recent massive flooding. The second were announcements from the United Kingdom and the United States regarding the vaccine against COVID-19....
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares A few years ago, a friend from high school texted me this message: “How did you manage to survive?” That friend of mine had always been a jokester. His text message was intended to greet me and my wife Andeng and to wish us well as we marked our wedding...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “Do you think ‘Filipino resilience’ is overrated?” That was one of the questions we got this past week from some of our readers. They were apparently affected by a message on Twitter coming from a showbusiness personality. In the tweet, the said...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares As we write this column, many of our countrymen in various parts of Luzon are picking up the pieces – literally and figuratively speaking – in the aftermath of the onslaught of Typhoon Ulysses. The magnitude of the fury of Ulysses was somehow unexpected. We...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “How does it feel to win an election?” That was the question a number of friends were asking me this past week. They seem to have been watching the conduct of the presidential elections in the United States. They must have been contaminated by the excitement...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “In a span of seven and a half months, a good number of people close to us passed away.” This is the gist of some of the saddest text and private messages we received over the past few months following the start of the quarantine season in March of this year....
