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It’s a good thing that—as of this writing—both the Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have declared there is no confirmed 2019-nCoV case in the Philippines.
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It’s a good thing that—as of this writing—both the Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have declared there is no confirmed 2019-nCoV case in the Philippines.
IN his last State of the Nation Address, President Duterte urged senators to pass the National Land Use Act, a measure that had been approved in the House of Representatives but still pending in the Senate.
CONGESTION is a major source of frustration for road users in Metro Manila and other
urban centers, and the problem has only worsened over time.
IN the movie A Quiet Place, shown in local cinemas in April, we saw humanity being hunted by alien monsters who are blind but have incredibly sensitive hearing.
BY the time this editorial comes, out some 600,000 positions in more than 42,000 barangays in the country (including those in the Sangguniang Kabataan [SK]) would have already been decided by voters in Monday’s elections.
THERE has been a general decline of unionism in the country over the past few decades. The number of card-carrying union members would probably be just around 10 percent of the country’s work force today. The number of collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) registered with the labor department is not any more encouraging.
WE commend President Duterte for apologizing to the Chinese people for the 2010 Quirino Grandstand tragedy in which 22 Hong Kong tourists were held hostage and eight were brutally killed by a dismissed Manila police officer.
IT is quite unfortunate that rape victims are often made suspects in their own cases and that they are often insulted and shamed more with “she was asking for it” statements, as if the rape itself is not devastating enough for victims, whatever the context.
Recent statements from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) have again brought crucial public attention to the urgent need for transparency and accountability in the management of our country’s natural resources.
WE are glad to know the government has come up with some kind of contingency plan so that the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who might be displaced from Qatar and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are provided income-generating options to fall back on when they get home.
Take a good look at the leadership struggles that occur in pursuit of the Speakership of the House and the Senate Presidency. It could give one a good glimpse of what might be in store for us under a parliamentary-federal form of government, and it doesn’t look pretty.
IS there a compelling reason to change the 1987 Constitution at this time?
We tend to agree that the best option for amending the 1987 Constitution—if we are to go through with it at all—is through a constitutional convention or by electing delegates to a convention that would propose amendments to the Constitution.
Last December the Office of the Ombudsman ordered the one-year suspension of four commissioners of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for, among other offenses, failing to implement the government’s policy against anticompetitive behavior in the electricity market.
WE should prepare for strong typhoons and heavy rains that come much later in the year, well after the rainy season is over, as this has become the new normal in the country.
Whether it’s marriage equality or addressing other forms of discrimination, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights and issues are consistently controversial.
WE are glad President Duterte ordered the military to cease from conducting offensives against the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People’s Army (NPA) during the Christmas period in observance of the traditional holiday cease-fire with the CPP-NPA.
Christmas is usually the time employers thank workers for the contributions they have made to their respective businesses and workplaces the last 12 months by giving them the mandatory 13th-month pay, as well as other perks, allowances, bonuses and incentives, assuming they had a good year.
Those of us who have ever stood before some particular tree and found ourselves utterly transfixed by its beauty understand why Joyce Kilmer wrote his poem “Trees” (many might be surprised to know the poet Joyce was not a woman but a soldier who was killed in action during World War I).
A recent story on the ABS-CBN news web site said Sen. Emmanuel D. Pacquiao has been mulling over quitting his post due to frustrations on what he has found out about politics.
Fourteen senators voted last week to relocate the office of the Philippine Senate to Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Taguig from its current location in Pasay City.
President Duterte met face to face with United States President Donald J. Trump for the first time last Saturday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Leaders’ Meeting in Da Nang, Vietnam, CNN Philippines reported.
Science Secretary Fortunato T. de la Peña told ABS-CBN News recently that they are developing tools to encourage more Filipinos to work from home, as artificial intelligence threatens to displace up to 40,000 people by 2022, particularly in the outsourcing sector.
The estimated cost of cleaning the Pasig River is around P200 billion, and both the National Economic and Development Authority and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) have said this could still be a flagship project of the Duterte administration.
Last Tuesday President Duterte signed a memorandum ordering the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to take the lead in the antidrug campaign. The Philippine National Police, the National Bureau of Investigation, the military, the Bureau of Customs and other “ad hoc drug task force” agencies now have to defer to the PDEA in the conduct of anti-illegal drug operations, as per the order.
A recent report by our correspondent Ashley Manabat said the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) is losing up to 30 percent of its potential income from the small-town lottery (STL) because of the continued operation of jueteng and other forms of illegal gambling in some provinces.
Not too many Filipinos might be aware that there is such a thing as a National Family Week and that the country just concluded its 25th-year celebration of the event.
The House Appropriations Committee is restoring the full budgets of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) after initially shrinking their 2018 budgets to just P1,000 each.
By next year the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) would be finished with their nationwide coral reef assessment, a joint project they call the National Coral Reef Status.
President Duterte said Customs Commissioner Nicanor E. Faeldon had offered to quit his post three times for failing to rid the government bureau of corruption.
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