PAGBABAGO Faith is allegiance, commitment, service for the thought, belief conviction translates into action. There is allegiance to comm-unity, it’s culture and tradition. There is allegiance to one’s own people when one is their “public servant” or “servant leader” – Gemino H. Abad...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid A most disturbing pre-Christmas event that occurred on International Human Rights Day last December 10,and on the second day of the 2020 World Press Freedom conference, was the arrest of Lady Ann “Icy” Salem in...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid Today, Filipino women and their sisters from all over the world who participated at the 4th UN global women’s conference in Beijing will meet again (our Philippine group through Zoom), this time to exchange experiences on what happened to the Declaration and...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid I thought that there was a show of great fervor and enthusiasm by the people during last Monday’s celebration of the 157 th birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio. Or could it be just my own perception, having been in solitary quarantine...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid The red alert is up. Here is the situation today: Child malnutrition in the country is one of the highest in the world, with one in three children below 5 years stunted. In 2018, at least 48.2 percent of infants aged 6-11...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid One national figure that many of us miss, especially during these times when democracy continues to be eroded and “devitalized,” is the late Supreme Court Justice Cecilia Munoz Palma. During martial law and even years after, she stood out, speaking the...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid I write this as “Ulysses” had just swept across Central Luzon, Bicol, and Metro Manila leaving a swathe of devastation from the heavy winds and rains it brought. Angat, Caliraya, and La Mesa dams have already reached their full...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid As of time of writing, the counting in the US presidential election is still going on, but it seems like it will be a Biden presidency. The count shows Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden with 253 electoral votes over Trump’s 213. And he leads by 63,000 in...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid A day after my piece on development communication and its history, where I wrote about UP professor emeritus Nora C. Quebral and her pioneering work that elevated the field as both a science and a discipline, came out, she passed away at 94....
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid While Senator Imee Marcos’ description of development communication as “cute and archaic may have flustered some of our colleagues, and that the remarks may be somewhat demeaning, they may be the needed “trigger” to make...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid The various events happening in the country today remind me of Samuel Beckett’s play about two friends waiting for an imaginary friend who never came. They try to amuse themselves to make the wait bearable,...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid I thought that the holding of a forthcoming global summit, “Negotiating the New Normal”was timely. It is intended for everyone who believes that we need to prepare ourselves as we enter a new world. For...
