Now that Metro Manila and Calabarzon have been reverted to the status of Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ), the second most stringent of the government’s pandemic restrictions, people have to go back to the time when they...
In recent weeks, there has been a stepped-up exchange of words between officials of the United States and China on the South China Sea. In the wake of the 4 th anniversary of the 2016 ruling of the Permanent Court...
On one hand, we have the fact that the coronavirus is still very much around. As of July 31, the Department of Health and the World Health Organization said the Philippines had 93,354 cases and 2,023 deaths. The Philippines now has the most cases in the Western Pacific region -- more than China’s...
In the national effort to meet the problems raised by COVID-19, Congress is moving to enact laws to help support the economy which has been badly hit by the pandemic. A number of economic bills have thus been filed in Congress, some from the administration. The Corporate Income Tax and Incentives...
President Duterte revived interest in the death penalty when he included among his proposals in his State of the Nation Address that it be reinstated as penalty for drug-related crimes. In the House of Representatives, Congressmen Robert Ace Barbers of Bayan Muna and Ruffy Biazon of Muntinlupa, who...
This weekend, the global number of COVID-19 cases crossed the 16-million mark, with the United States having the most cases at over 4 million. The global death toll was 646,996, the US accounting for nearly a fourth of the total with 146,788....
The President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday listed 21 priority bills he asked Congress to enact in this second regular session of the 18 th Congress. . He again asked Congress to approve a bill reviving the death penalty for drug...
Amid so much news of business closures, job losses, and many nations seeing their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fall to unprecedented levels, it is good to hear positive reports in some sectors, reports of expectations of recovery from the depth to which the COVID-19 pandemic has...
A recent study by researchers of the University of California at San Diego with the University of Toronto, and the Indian Institute of Science found that respiratory droplets from a cough or a sneeze can travel — depending on weather conditions — eight to 13 feet away before evaporating. The...
When President Duterte delivers his State of the Nation Address (SONA) today before Congress in joint session at the Batasan Pambansa in Quezon City, he is likely to touch on so many issues and incidents that have recently affected the nation. Thus we may expect him to mention Congress’ action on...
In the last four months, the government has generally followed the decisions of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) and its decisions have leaned towards shutting down entire regions,...
In these times of uncertainty, when so many institutions, celebrations, and occasions for which we are known as a nation have been upended because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is good to know that President Duterte will carry on the tradition of personally appearing before...
