September 21 came and went early this week with hardly anyone noticing. This is as it should be. The day martial law was declared in the country in 1972 does not deserve to be marked with any kind of memorial ceremony. We used to observe a day called Bataan Day, commemorating the day Bataan and...
Both barely new in showbiz standards, Darwin Yu and Enzo Santiago’s undeniable passion for their craft can easily be spotted even from afar. Darwin is a 21-year-old lad who at his early years in the business was already nominated as best actor in 2017 Madrid International Film Festival and PMPC...
President Duterte has decided it is best to maintain the one-meter rule on physical distancing in public transport. The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) had allowed a shorter distance of .75 meters to enable public transport to accommodate more...
Hundreds of dead fish started floating to the surface of Manila Bay near the Baseco compound in Manila Bay Thursday morning, September 17, after a night of heavy rains over Manila. Because of the recent controversy over the dumping of crushed dolomite to look like white sand along Roxas Boulevard,...
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on the ten member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) early this month to stand up to China in their territorial disputes in the South China Sea and they can bank on US support. ASEAN response was expectedly cool to the...
The Vatican announced last weekend that Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, tested positive for COVID-19 on his arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in the Philippines on the evening of September 10. The Holy See press...
The nation’s teachers have been among the many sectors of the population that have suffered most from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. When the lockdowns began in March, with the strictest Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECW) in Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon, schools...
The agricultural sector in the country contributes around 10 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) but its share of funds in the national budget in the last 10 years has been a measly 3 to 5 percent, Secretary of Agriculture William Dar said in recent virtual hearings...
Life just gets better when you have grandchildren, here’s why To celebrate Grandparents Day, I asked successful industry leaders about how much their lives have changed since becoming lolos and lolas , their perspective on the joy of that comes with their new roles, and what life lessons they...
The 15 months given to Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano in the 15-21 agreement he had with Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco are fast coming to a close. Under that agreement, Cayetano was to serve 15 months and Velasco 21 months. Cayetano’s 15 months end next month, October....
Manila Bay is in the news again. It is being provided with a patch of white sand along 500 meters of the baywalk, actually not sand but crushed dolomite boulders, a variant of limestone, that is coming all the way from Cebu , according to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)....
Six months after Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon went under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ), the Philippines’ harshest level of restriction in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we appear now to be on the downward trend in the number of infections. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, chairman...
