HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Results of a survey conducted by the Alliance of Concerned Teachers reveal the immense impact of the Duterte administration’s program on online education on the nation’s public school teachers. With 6,731 public school teachers as respondents, the ACT survey from March 29 to...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Who would have thought that Filipinos themselves would provide a ray of hope amid the gloom and doom of the pandemic? But that’s exactly what has been happening for days now, with the setting up of community pantries in Metro Manila and in many parts of the country. The...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Say what you want about the political situation, but there have been 1,092,484 new voter registrations for the first two months of 2021. At this time of gloomy prognostications about the possible outcomes of the 2022 elections, the seeming avalanche of new voter registration...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz It must be said from the get-go that President Duterte cannot complain right now about the outcome of his administration’s response to the pandemic. Portrayed as the savior of the country, he should own the fate that his pronouncements and policies have wrought. Congress...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz The 10,000 kilometers between France and the Philippines won’t matter tonight as Paris-based Filipino singing sensation Aliènette performs live from the French capital tonight for her people and fans worldwide in an online concert dubbed “Gabi ng OPM.” But it won’t be on...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Nimfa Lanzanas is a model mother. Eversince the government imprisoned her son Edward, she attended court proceedings and also joined relatives of other political prisoners in a common cause. Exactly what crime Nanay Nimfa has committed, only the government knows. But on what...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz There’s a lot to unwrap in the Regional Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (RLECC) of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) Resolution No. 04 directing the conduct of Oplan Tokhang-style operations against “left leaning personalities in the government, media, and...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Domingo, my maternal grandfather who all of us his grandchildren didn’t get to meet because he died way ahead of seeing any of his children get married, fought as a guerrilla in World War II. Quite fortunately, he was listed in the roll of guerrillas of the US Armed Forces in...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz A banking industry report said that "as of September, 2020, the total operating income of universal and commercial banks in the Philippines amounted to approximately ₱601.7 billion. Operating income is the company's profit after deducting operating expenses in the country.”...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz These times, one may think that the idea that “civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the the military” is no longer relevant or fashionable, considering the growing role of retired and active generals in our national life. In this time of rampant red-tagging, some...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Students don’t live in a vacuum, wherever they may be enrolled. They are citizens too. They witness or experience what other citizens witness and experience daily – inadequate mass transport, high prices of goods, official incompetence, and other outcomes of injustice,...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Critical thinking is perhaps the single-biggest thing that sets students of the University of the Philippines and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines apart from others. Critical thinking requires academic freedom and other fundamental freedoms both for the teachers and...
