MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Our health care system has long been a patient lying in wait for a doctor with an Rx for a cheap instant cure. With shortages left and right, forever and ever, of nurses (at present count, 106,000, compared to the six million needed by the world), doctors (67,000), and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A radio commentator was the first to prick the conscience of residents of a barangay in San Miguel, Bulacan who “did not want to be rescued” and as a result caused the death, though inadvertently, of five volunteers who had braved the cold dark rainy night to save...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Japanese cars. Swiss watches. French perfume. Thai silk. Belgian chocolates. And Philippines? Filipino hospitality, you bet. There’s more. So much more that reminding ourselves to “buy local, save jobs” doesn’t quite say enough anymore. Now we must tell the world...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That’s the Vice President talking, and she was addressing the police and warning criminal elements and terrorists. You don’t have to belong to a terrorist organization to be feared as a terrorist. Any person, man or woman, armed with a gun – yes, that includes cops...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Mahatma Gandhi said it, later adopted for business by Tiffany’s and De Beers. The best things come in small packages, indeed. "Build, Build, Build" was a monumental success for the Duterte administration. The present dispensation under President Marcos is now asking for...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Prices of everything from fuel to fish, eggs to chicken going up. The list of shortages grows longer. Guess what’s coming down? If you believe the cops, crime has gone down by 36 percent. This despite the daily reports of brutal assaults against girls, women, and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It’s official. DTI tells one and all, start buying your noche buena goodies and ingredients now, today, before prices spring up in the last quarter leading to December. The advice – granting that it will be heeded by and affordable to millions of those most impacted...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Every blessed year, the recitation of so-called challenges faced by teachers, parents, and students is what marks the first day of school; it’s a ritual, really. After generations of teaching and learning, the faster those problems age the more unchanging they remain,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Once upon a time, a high-profile VIP was at her wits’ end wondering where she could tour her high-profile VVIP visitors from abroad. These were worldly, sophisticated travelers who flew from Paris to Prague at the drop of a coin, so the mission was to show them how the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A study in contrasts is a study in presidential styles. PRRD threatened to go house to house to vaccinate the unwilling in their sleep, even if the jab would need to be administered into one ear and out the other. Three days ago, PBBM went to an SM mall with his...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Away we go from crowded NCR to a few beautiful places, no passport required. Once again Boracay has been picked as one of the most beautiful spots on earth. What the international media haven’t mentioned about Boracay is how romantic it looks in the rain, a gentle soft...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Da nerve, da nerve, da nerve, da nerve! Yes, repeated four times, once in behalf of each sector that was stabbed in the back by that patently illegal and treacherous order to import 300,000 metric tons of sugar, those targeted sectors being the Office of the President,...
