The good news is that the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has allowed, starting Monday, the raising of the limits on church attendance in General Community Quarantine (GCQ) areas like Metro Manila from 30 to 50 percent, and the ...
The Senate approved last Monday Senate Bill 1886, to expand the jurisdiction of first and second-level courts of the land with the goal of addressing delays in the disposition of cases due to overloading in certain courts. SB 1886 is a consolidated measure from SB 1359 filed by Sen. Richard Gordon...
United States President Joseph Biden and China President Xi Jinping spoke by phone for two hours last Thursday. It was the first time for the two leaders to speak with each other since Biden assumed the presidency on January 30. That it lasted two hours speaks of the many concerns and issues...
The Christian period of penitence, Lent, begins this week with Ash Wednesday on February 17. These are the six weeks before Easter Sunday on Holy Week. Ash Wednesday is named from the rite of placing ashes on the foreheads of participants with the words “Repent and believe in the Gospel” or...
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III commended the Bureau of Customs on its anniversary celebration last Tuesday. The bureau performed “extremely well” in 2020, he said, despite the difficulties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The bureau has long suffered from a reputation as historically...
The Supreme Court, in a decision dated January 28, 2021, affirmed the notices of disallowance by the Commission on Audit (COA) on some P204.7 million granted by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) to its officials and its employees in various kinds of benefits in...
Since the historic Paris Climate Agreement of December, 2015, many nations around the world have taken concrete steps to carry out its goal of reducing carbon emissions – mostly from industries and from motor vehicles cars – around the world so as to limit the rise in world temperatures that...
We already have the Local Absentee Voting Act which allows certain mediamen, police, and teachers to cast their votes early so they carry on with their duties on Election Day. Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon has now proposed that certain other sectors – People with...
Now is not the time to implement the Child Car Seat Law. There is no need to enforce it now when current community quarantine rules prohibit children below 10 years of age from leaving their houses, Sen. Lawrence “Bong” Go said this weekend. The law, RA-11229, the Child Safety in Motor Vehicles...
At 5:30 a.m. today, following a midnight mass at the Quirino Grandstand at the Luneta in Manila, the procession of the Black Nazarene back to its permanent shrine at the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene – Quiapo Church – begins. This is the annual procession which...
With one single act – ordering the killing of a top Iranian general -- United States President Donald Trump last Friday set off events with dire repercussions on the whole world. Trump ordered the killing of Qasem Soleimani, chief of the Quds foreign operations...
President Duterte is due to sign the 2020 General Appropriations Bill today, January 6. It is already six days in the year, but the President chose to delay his signing of the bill so he would have a little more time to look at certain budget provisions more closely. Last year, we may recall, the...
