Category: Comment and Opinion

The Dureza prayer? PGMA is visibly irked – reading her behavioral signature – following the statement made by the Press Secretary in an opening prayer during that cabinet meeting to the effect…

It is a story that may not be too pleasant, but one that is repeated all too often: teenage pregnancy. Some 16.5 million Filipinos belong to the 15-24 year old age group….

Hello there. (^_^) I hope someone would find the time to read this writing of mine about the issue on the Reproductive Health Bill. Yeah, I know this may sound boring to…

Price control – drugs or medicines? Republic Act No. 9502 also known as the Cheaper Medicines Act and its subsequent Implementing Rules and Regulations that will take effect on November 21 of…

Low pay of teachers If push turns to shove, teachers throughout the country will be receiving P9,000 pay increase in their average monthly salary of P10,000 – at least on three equal…

P.S. to HB 5043 – reproductive health bill? It challenges reflection that a lawyer, instead of a doctor, is the chief architect and single strong advocate of House Bill 5043 which actually…

Peace problem in Mindanao Events in Mindanao indicate that the problem of peace in general has not been approached with a studied plan in mind – no ‘cognitive map’, no ‘blueprint’, no…

Once again, the matter of a charter change is being floated around at the highest levels of governance – with no less than the Senate uncharacteristically endorsing its own Senate Resolution No….

Children in conflict with the law Not too many public officials and employees in the different agencies of government are sufficiently enlightened on a law that has been erected some three years…

The acknowledgment given by no less than the President of the Republic of the Philippines to at least a dozen ordinary Filipinos on the occasion of her State of the Nation Address…

The State of the Nation Address, a yearly tradition where the president delivers her speech before the joint session of Congress and Senate, is always attended to with a sense of Marxist…

Isa sa pinaka-importanteng office dito para sa mga empleyado ng DepEd ay ang DepED Credit Cooperative (DepEDCC). Ito ay isang private cooperative kung saan ang mga miyembro nito ay mga taga-DepED din…

JDV’s almost theatrical 59-minute rhetoric, served public notice that he stood trial – and pleaded guilty as charged, matter-of-factly. Keen observers of trends know where the man is coming from – trying…

Relaxing moments in history? After five years there had never been any barangay elections, to have one gives that feeling of people empowerment. In the higher scheme of things, it only signals…