HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Up to now, there are those who believe that laziness is what’s behind the poverty and difficult life of many Filipinos. Jose Rizal already answered this charge in his time, but the fable still exists, infecting minds about the real reasons behind destitution. Enter the World...
REFLECTIONS TODAY After his defense of marriage, Jesus places his concern on the children; he lays his hands on them and prays for them. The children contrast especially with adults who are “hard of heart”: they are open to be taught and to be guided. Thus, they symbolize those who belong to...
A total of 18,860 individuals passed the June 2022 Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET), the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced. (PRC / Manila Bulletin) Of this number, 8,667 were elementary teachers while 10,193 were secondary teachers. For the elementary teacher passers, 290...
REFLECTIONS TODAY In the Kingdom of heaven, God allows the evil people to coexist with the good ones. In the parable of the weeds among the wheat, the servants wish to remove the weeds from the field because they are not sown by the landowner, but by an enemy. The landowner objects, stressing that...
Reviewing quarantine, isolation, and why these are still important CLINICAL MATTERS After a very quiet few months following the Omicron wave in January, cases are once again on the rise. Many of us were expecting thousands of cases shortly after elections but this never materialized. Indeed, WHO...
The Hanoi mission could pose a different task for the battle-hardened Filipino athletes who traveled to the charming northeastern Vietnamese city armed with months of training and a big motivation that comes handy with a little prayer. With the cauldron now lit to mark the pandemic-delayed 31st...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There are 10 million senior citizens, and if most of them are qualified voters – going by the age requirement, they are 100 percent eligible – do you suppose they’ll be voting as one for the one and only Senior Citizens Party-list? As it happens the SCP-list is just...
#MINDANAO John Tria On April 5, 2022 the Sulong Pilipinas Consultative assemblies will hold another session, the last before the May 2022 elections. The first Sulong I attended in 2016 hammered out the 10 point socio economic agenda of the Duterte administration, forming a key summary of many of...
Jensen Gomez Jensen Gomez's Let Me In music video was released on Feb. 10. It's the third and final track on his EP Phases Vol. 3. According to Jensen, letting me in is comparable to finding out you're no longer welcome. "Let Me In" is a song about someone who wishes to be allowed back in, praying...
Let’s talk about Bruno this time Bruno just defeated Elsa, well, on the Billboard’s Hot 100 song chart that is. The song “We Don't Talk About Bruno” from the 2021 animated film “Encanto” surpasses the record set by fellow Disney movie, 2013’s “Frozen,” and its anthem “Let It...
BATANG MAYNILA Manila Mayor Isko Moreno Our hearts go out to the victims of typhoon “Odette” that did not only render families homeless but also left people dead when Christmas is just a few days away. As always, we in the city of Manila wasted no time to help in our own little way those who...
'Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage' After the epic breakup of Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), and the alien symbiote in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, part of the symbiote leaps into serial killer Cletus Kasady moments before his execution. Kasady becomes host for Carnage, an even-larger, even-deadlier, and...
