FINDING ANSWERS President Duterte’s swift decision to put Metro Manila and the provinces of Laguna, Cavite, Rizal, and Bulacan under the stricter modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) from Aug. 4 to 18 is a welcome development for our medical community. While it was short of the ECQ or...
PEACE-MAKER We wish to pay tribute to the late senator and foreign affairs secretary Raul Manglapus, whose 21 st death anniversary last July 25 we quietly commemorated. We were in Carmel, California in 1998, having accepted an invitation to speak at a forum organized by Paul Burgess Fay Jr. who...
OF TREES AND FOREST I was fortunate to have been given the opportunity to serve in both government and the private sector. After starting out as an entrepreneur early in life, I ventured into politics in 1992. I built and led my own business from the ground up. I was also able to assume leadership...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina With July being Nutrition Month, it is imperative to refocus attention on the gnawing hunger and malnutrition of impoverished Filipino children who are prone to more suffering as the coronavirus crisis rages on. Each day, around 95 children in our...
PEACE-MAKER Tomorrow’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) by President Rodrigo Duterte, his fifth, is both unprecedented and crucial in the midst of the raging COVID-19 pandemic, which, as of this writing, has infected more than 72,000 of our countrymen and claimed more than 1,800 lives, and...
FINDING ANSWERS It’s no secret that I’m deeply saddened by the fate of ABS-CBN whose franchise renewal was denied by a congressional committee. Having spent the past 18 years as host of the top-rating teleradyo program Sagot Ko ‘Yan on Sunday mornings, and as co-host of Magpayo Nga...
OF TREES AND FOREST The COVID-19 pandemic is essentially a health crisis. The virus that causes it—severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—has wreaked havoc on the health of people it has infected. In the Philippines, the number of coronavirus cases is at 65,204 (as of...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Malacañang has clarified a controversial statement from the Interior Secretary that policemen will be conducting a house-to-house search for persons infected with the coronavirus. No, it will not be a police-led search, but one to be led by health authorities accompanied by the...
OF TREES AND FOREST Aside from the lives lost and the economic growth impeded, the COVID-19 pandemic has also disrupted the grand plans of the Duterte administration to usher in the “Golden Age” of Philippine infrastructure. “Build, Build, Build” was envisioned by President Rodrigo Duterte...
PEACE-MAKER As of last month, June, both the San Miguel Corporation (SMC), of which he is president and COO, and his personal pandemic-related donations to the medical sector and hard-hit communities have amounted to a staggering P1.25 billion, including medical equipment, food products, alcohol,...
OF TREES AND FOREST Taal Volcano decided to start the new year with a bang. Well, not really a loud bang but a “steam-driven” eruption followed by a “magmatic” eruption. But it has disrupted the lives of our kababayans, especially those living near the picturesque volcano. Philippine...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS A team headed by a cabinet secretary has been dispatched to undertake the mandatory evacuation of Filipinos in Iraq after government raised Alert Level 4 last week. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Alert Level 4 is the highest crisis alert level and is raised...
