Invest more in energy
POWER supply interruption affects the economic sector because most businesses’ critical infrastructures heavily rely on electricity. When electricity supply is not continuously given to...
A good indicator
HERE’S ONE good news. Since March 6 of this year, no one in our country has died of COVID-19, according to the weekly bulletins...
‘Flying voters’
CLOSE to 120,000 registered voters found having double or multiple registrations may face election offense cases, according to the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Its Automated...
PNP internal cleansing
CONSIDER these recent headlines: “Ninja cops, informants declaring only 30% of drug hauls”, “Senate turns over alleged ‘ninja cops’ to PNP”, “Ax poised over...
Luring more tourists
ACCORDING to the Department of Tourism, the competitive advantage of the Philippines over other countries in Asia is that it is able to position...
Corruption and environmental destruction
A FEW years ago, the World Economic Forum, along with Transparency International, Political and Economic Risk Consultancy and other institutions saw the Philippines as...
Agri expectations
ALMOST a year ago, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., in his first State of the Nation Address (SONA), highlighted the importance of agriculture in...
Human export
A RECENT Social Weather Stations survey found that seven percent of Filipino households have an overseas Filipino worker that helps provide for the family....
Interconnected
WITH the Philippines still mainly an agricultural country, the impact of the El Niño phenomenon will be hard as the country had experienced in...
Humanitarian assistance
DID YOU KNOW that it was World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day the other day, Monday, May 8? Red Cross and Red Crescent...