Wasted environment
TODAY is World Environment Day. It encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment.
We remember, 22 years ago, the enactment of the...
Where there’s smoke…
FOLLOWING an incident in Bacolod City recently, the toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has proposed that smoke-producing devices, also called colored smokes or smoke...
Public roads as racetracks
WE DO recognize the big contribution of motorcycles in easing the traffic problem. But motorcycle riders have constantly been the top victim of road...
A year after
TIME to reflect. Now we must ask ourselves a year after the May 9, 2022 elections: Did we vote the right people to government...
Narcopolitics in the barangays
ACCORDING to the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6), 76 barangay officials in Western Visayas are involved in illegal drugs – 20 village chiefs and...
Emergency protection for children
SEVEN years have passed since the government enacted Republic Act (RA) 10821 or Children’s Emergency Relief and Protection Act but many local government units...
Disappeared
(Due to its timeliness, we yield this space to the statement of human rights alliance Karapatan on the International Week of the Disappeared. –...
Translating knowledge into practice
“MAWAR” has reintensified into a super typhoon as it continues to move closer to the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), according to the Philippine...
Energy stability
A FIVE-HOUR power outage in the Philippines inflicts about P556 million in economic losses. If not resolved, the country stands to lose more as...
Ready for ‘Mawar’?
THE TROPICAL cyclone spotted outside the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) has further strengthened into a supertyphoon.
According to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical...