OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar The next key step in our battle to fight the COVID-19 pandemic is to ensure that the vaccines can be administered to our people in the safest and fastest way possible. This is very important so that we can reduce infections and deaths due to...
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...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The “Four Way Test,” of what we Rotarians think, say, or do in the Rotary Creed include the following: First: “Is it the Truth?” Second: “Is it Fair to All Concerned?” Third: “Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendship?”...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar I read an interesting interview with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates over the weekend. A couple of years ago he was asked about work-life balance and this was what he had to say then: "For my particular way of being, it is true that I did not...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay An inclusive economy should help lift the burdens of the people, rewarding their labors and helping them meet their basic needs. It must help local entrepreneurs grow by providing them a climate that encourages them to innovate, improve, and...
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...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The UN, US, G-7, and many other countries and international organizations expressed either condemnation or grave concern over the military takeover in Myanmar and the detention of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, President U Win Myint,...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay A day after the termination of the accord between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of National Defense (DND), a social media post appeared in the Facebook pages of several military units listing the names of UP...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of technologies not only in surviving the lockdown but in navigating the new normal as we start to revive our economy and restart social activities. Some of these technologies were already...
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,...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We, Dagupeños, are proud of the appointment by US President Joe Biden of Filipina-American Camille Calimlim-Touton as deputy commissioner of the US Bureau of Reclamation. Calimlim-Touton’s parents, Carl Calimlim and Marlene Bangsal, are...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay The term “enemies of the state” was used loosely by repressive regimes worldwide in the 1970s to justify the persecution of political opponents and activists. The Marcos regime used it as an all-embracing label against the broad range of...
