ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma On Monday, May 9, Filipino voters will elect a new president, vice president, 12 senators, a representative for their congressional district, a provincial governor, vice-governor, provincial board members, city or municipal mayor, vice-mayors and members of the city or...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma On Feb. 25, 2014, the 28th anniversary of the triumph of People Power at EDSA, my esteemed friend Conrad de Quiros wrote a column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer in which he raised the question, “Can an EDSA still happen today?” De Quiros has since been sidelined by a...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma For the first time in three years — yes, three years, not just two years — Filipino Christians are able to witness and participate in Holy Week festivities in person. Many express surprise at the realization that it’s been three years since we were in church to witness...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Last month, I was invited to speak to students of a Bacolod city-based college that included many youthful first-time voters. The forum focused on the importance of making informed choices during the coming elections so that good governance may be put in place. To provide...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Celebrating one’s birthday could become a learning opportunity by imagining a History Channel episode that chronicles the milestones of one’s life journey. If one born at this time in 1953 were to research newspaper archives, he would find out that the following were...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma In January 1991, President Corazon Aquino convened a multisectoral workshop that would craft a contingency plan for coping with the effects of the Iraq-Kuwait War. Recall that in August 1990, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait and declared its...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Voting in an election is the most important civic duty of a citizen. When citizens cast their ballots on election day, they exercise their sovereign right. The Philippine Constitution declares: “The Philippines is a democratic and republican state. Sovereignty resides in...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Should there be runoff elections in the Philippines? This question has emerged in light of the fact that in all five post-EDSA elections, the winning candidate obtained less than a majority vote. In three of those, the winners won by a considerable margin, even while falling...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma How important are the coming elections in shaping the future of the nation? An election could change the course that a country will take for an entire generation. Consider the snap elections held on Feb. 7, 1986. Recall that this event sparked a massive wave of protest...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma One of the “muted” aspects of the aftermath of the triumph of People Power at EDSA 36 years ago was its impact on industrial relations. I wish to share with readers excerpts from an essay that I wrote as co-author of a book published by the People Management Association...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma One of the best ways to characterize our coming national and local elections is that it is a process of selecting the best-qualified applicants for elective positions — from President of the Philippines to city or municipal councilors. We, the sovereign people, are given...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma To prioritize public schools for the safe reopening of face-to-face classes, the Department of Education (DepEd) is using a School Safety Assessment Tool (SSAT). According to the DepEd, 6,686 public schools nationwide — or 14 percent of the 47,612 total public schools —...
