Editorial Conserve water. Earlier this week, the National Water Resources Board (NWRB) directed public attention to this vital imperative just as Metro Manilans braced themselves for possibly tougher restrictions arising from an apparent Omicron-driven upsurge. The NWRB reported that as of midnight...
Editorial The rise has now become a surge. Hundreds of cases became thousands of patients this week. Lines are not only forming outside the emergency room of hospitals as people are also lining up outside the doors of clinics, testing centers, even drugstores. Pharmaceutical firms warn citizens...
Editorial Super Typhoon Odette (international name: Rai) cut a wide swath of destruction after making landfall nine times across Caraga region (Siargao, Dinagat Islands); Eastern Visayas (Southern Leyte); Central Visayas (Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental); and Palawan. While the casualty toll is still...
Editorial Amid a continuing uptrend in COVID-19 infections, the government has declared Alert Level 3 in Metro Manila for the first half of January 2022. The number of cases in the capital region, Calabarzon and Central Luzon has been increasing rapidly during the past two weeks. The positivity...
Editorial The first weekend of a new year opens a window for some contemplation. How far have we come as a nation? Or how have we progressed as a family? One only needs to look at what a nation values to determine the moral standing of its people. A cursory search on the term “values” reveals...
Editorial A new year always brings with it a renewed sense of hope. Compared to the start of 2021, citizens of the world welcomed 2022 with optimism and more merriment, tempered slightly by the resurgent threat of the Omicron variant. Here in the Philippines, the New Year was welcomed with more...
Editorial Explore all possible options to safely mitigate the effects of more transmissible variants of COVID-19. Thus did Health Secretary Francisco Duque III frame the current strategy of the government in the continuing efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Three important measures were...
Editorial Jose Rizal was born with a head too large for his body that his mother, Teodora Alonso, could have died giving birth to him. In Rizal in Saga, a biography that has been reissued early this month just in time for Rizal Day, his biographer, National Artist Nick Joaquin, wrote of Doña...
Editorial The enactment of an updated Public Service Act (PSA) in the first quarter of 2022 has become distinctly possible after the passage of the Senate bill that would be harmonized with the House of Representatives’ bill. This would complement the earlier enactment of the Retail Trade...
A few days before the New Year, there are still families in some areas of Visayas and Mindanao who are staying inside evacuation centers. Welcoming 2022 will be so much different for them. There will be no gatherings, fireworks, new clothes, or sumptuous food and round fruits on the table. They may...
It’s the day after Christmas, the time to count blessings and be grateful. We hear that advice — count your blessings — often repeated these days amid a pandemic when anxiety and grief are affecting mental health, productivity, and relationships. It is an advice that should be given again...
For many, Christmas has come without much fanfare this year, quite similar from 2020. Yet the meaning of the season — both its religious origin and cultural significance among Filipinos —has not been lost, particularly with the recent outpouring of volunteerism in the wake of Typhoon Odette,...
