PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid T he recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) poll which showed hunger at record-high 30.7% should send alarm bells to our leaders and to every Filipino. Today, 7.6 million families are experiencing “involuntary hunger” at least once a...
Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid It was the President’s debut at the United Nations. And he delivered a great speech, which will be remembered not only for its elegant prose but because what he said was a much welcomed message of hope even if unexpected. This was before a virtual audience of the...
Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid PAGBABAGO This truth we already know – that economic growth is bound to end with or without the coronavirus. It is said that the current global population would require the equivalent of five Earth-like planets to support the present global population. Which means that...
Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid PAGBABAGO That our country has been in a perpetual “conflict state” is a truism which today should not be regarded as inconsequential. A policy decision area which has faced the country for the past six months of the pandemic is that of trying to balance the...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid I first met Gilda in 1996 although I had been a fan of this multi-awarded icon for quite sometime. I have read many of her writings, including three that I had retrieved from my library collection which had shrank to 15 percent of the original size as I had...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid Perhaps one feeling that all of us share during these past six months of quarantine is that it is difficult to be locked down for a long period of time. The lack of opportunity to move around freely, to see friends and family more often, to travel, and to seek...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid While the Department of Education was adjusting to the challenges of K-12 and becoming competitive, COVID-19 came so suddenly, adding an even more daunting challenge. Distance learning isn’t new. As early as the 60’s, a number of public secondary schools...
PAGBABAGO This is a continuation of my piece on the assessment of the Constitution by UP Political Science professors, the Center for Integrative Studies (CIDS) and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). What was presented were qualitative assessments which...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid Many of our countrymen, including allies of the administration, have spoken: No, the bully cannot take the West Philippine Sea from us… It is ours, and no statement even from the highest official of the land can say otherwise… Our claim is just and not...
PAGBABAGO (I am yielding my space today to a colleague, Professor Bailen, a former UP professor of anthropology. Here, he offers a fresh and complementary perspective to the prevailing techno-medical-healthcare, and recently, the “police/military” approach, in controlling the deadly virus that...
PAGBABAGO Two events -- the passing of RA 11479 by Congress and its signing into law by the President, and the refusal by Congress to renew ABS-CBN’s franchise, both measures that defied popular will, triggered some groups to seek legal remedies. Added to groups I...
PAGBABAGO On the eve of President Duterte’s signing of the controversial RA 11479, his advisers had asked him to carefully reconsider what he intended to do because of mounting opposition. They were specifically referring to the Bangsamoro leaders who brought their petition to the President...
