To implement or not to implement the mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) is a hotly contested issue. There are vocal supporters and passionate oppositionists. Both have valid arguments and data showing why it is beneficial — or useless — to our nation. The consensus that is...
How prepared are we in the event “The Big One”—a magnitude-7.2 earthquake triggered by the movement of the West Valley Fault—strikes in Metro Manila? The question comes to mind in the wake of the devastation caused by the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that hit Turkiye and Syria. A study...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina The massive 7.8 magnitude quake in southern Türkiye and northern Syria that has claimed more than 34,000 lives so far, with the numbers still climbing, is the kind of apocalyptic nightmare geoscientists have been worrying about. A glimpse of the...
(File Photo by Zaldy Comanda/Manila Bulletin) BAGUIO CITY -- Four elementary drum and lyres bands and seven cultural groups will show their wares in performances signaling the grand opening of the much-awaited Panagbenga or Baguio Flower Festival on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Classes in public and private...
DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire speaks to members of the media during the first face-to-face press briefing after two years at the DOH Central Office in Manila on Wednesday, July 20. (MB Photo: Noel Pabalate) Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said she is ready to play the...
Shoppers flock to bargain stores along Ilaya Street in Divisoria, Binondo, Manila, on Oct. 14, 2021. (Photo by Ali Vicoy) A local health expert believes that the country is ready and prepared in case the World Health Organization (WHO) decides to already lift the public health emergency of...
Around the world, the celebration of Christmas Day 2022 will be defined by tradition and change. After two years of muted Christmas activities, people have brought back everything about Christmas as we celebrated it before the pandemic. In the past weeks, despite the rising prices of fuel, food and...
Two days from now, the entire Christendom will commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. Year in and year out, this is the time of year when people plan festive gatherings for their families, friends, and colleagues to celebrate the season. It’s also the time for people to prepare gifts for those...
NLEX Corporation is ramping up its traffic management measures to meet the surge in traffic volume this coming Christmas and New Year holidays. From December 23, 2022 to January 3, 2023, the tollway company will enhance its operations along the NLEX-SCTEX as part of its “Safe Trip Mo Sagot Ko”...
All 42 commercial operating airports under the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines’ (CAAP) are now ready for the expected surge of passengers for the Christmas and New Year holidays, the agency announced Monday, December 5. Due to travel bans imposed in the last two years brought by...
This undated electron microscopic (EM) handout image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. It was a thin section image from a human skin sample. On the left were mature,...
With a month and a half left to go, a new administration led by presumptive president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will take over. News of prospective Cabinet members and new political movements and alliances will soon fill the news and give us a preview of what a Marcos administration will look like. When...
