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...
BETTER DAYS The Philippines is currently the highest in Southeast Asia when it comes to active COVID-19 cases. Indonesia may have registered the highest total number of cases overall, but their 37,083 active cases as of July 22 makes them only second in the region to our 45,646. With our...
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...
TOL VIEWS For the last several months, we have all been pushed to adapt to a radically changed way of life. Nearly every system we have established – health care, education, and employment, among others – and the processes necessarily entailed by these systems, have been modified in order to...
BETTER DAYS Plasma is the liquid portion of our blood, comprising up to 55 percent. It is mostly water, containing vital substances like hormones and nutrients. It also carries antibodies, a type of protein synthesized by a person’s immune system to help the body fight off foreign substances...
FINDING ANSWERS At the outset, let me state that I’m all for increasing the salary of our dedicated and hardworking civil servants. For those who toil honestly by the sweat of their brow, who serve the general public well and sometimes beyond the call of duty, who put into their work much more...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina The recent death of Jeanelyn Padernal Villavende that triggered the ongoing deployment ban of newly hired domestic workers to Kuwait highlights anew the plight of many OFWs facing horrible conditions abroad. “When will this inhumane treatment...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Recently, London-based research firm Capital Economics said they expect the Philippines to become the world’s 18 th largest economy by 2037 — up from 25 th in terms of nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) today. In 2012, HSBC projected that by 2050, ours...
