Finding Answers Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina Desperate times call for desperate measures. And the worsening public health crisis has intensified the desperation felt by many Filipinos. Thus, leaders of the country's top business and industry groups, including doctors’ and other professional...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina “To experience Lent with love means caring for those who suffer or feel abandoned and fearful because of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Pope Francis said in his Lenten message for 2021. As we take time to deepen our Christian faith with our Holy Week...
Finding Answers Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina The next two weeks are critical. With the worst of the pandemic now upon us especially in the National Capital Region and nearby provinces, it is imperative that the continuing surge in coronavirus infections is suppressed. The upsurge in COVID-19...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina The trend is disturbing and our scientific researchers see it as a portent of horrific times ahead. For three days since last Friday, the three highest single-day tallies so far this year of COVID cases nationwide were reported – 4,578 new cases...
Finding Answers Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina It’s now exactly a year when in-person learning inside schools abruptly came to a halt starting in the National Capital Region and ultimately throughout the Philippines as the coronavirus pandemic raged. Plans for localized and limited face-to-face...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina Even though tomorrow’s commemoration of the 1986 People Power Revolution might be subdued as what has been happening these past few years, it’s my firm belief that never shall the EDSA spirit be lost on Filipinos. Indeed, no matter how that...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina Here’s good news that largely went unnoticed: President Duterte has okayed the expansion of the Bulacan Industrial City where a new pharmaceutical manufacturing zone is set to rise. Sen. Francis Tolentino, who was my online guest last Sunday in my...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina Victor Ziga, John Osmeña, and Dante Jimenez were truly great men in their own right. When I learned last week that they had passed away one after the other, I knew our country had lost outstanding Filipinos whose legacy of public service was...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina While it comes as no surprise, given the economic stranglehold inflicted by stringent lockdowns last year as the pandemic started to rage, the news that the Philippine economy suffered its worst so far is still quite shocking. On Thursday last week,...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina I would like to share the insights of former Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor, chairman of the Federation of Free Farmers, about the predicament of the nation’s coconut farmers who remain poor despite the Coco Levy Fund worth billions of...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina In my Teleradyo program Sagot Ko ‘Yan last Sunday, I had an interesting discussion with Marinduque Governor Presbitero Velasco Jr., national chairman of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP), and he shared some remarkable...
Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina FINDING ANSWERS It certainly is good news that many local government units all over the country are now expressing willingness and financial capability to procure much-needed coronavirus vaccines for their constituents. The enthusiasm of LGUs is a most welcome...
