Evacuation
RIGHT NOW, sports venues and schools are the default evacuation centers. The impact on schools is incredibly disruptive because while the evacuees are on...
Women unite!
(Due to its significance, we yield this space to the statement of the Center for Women’s Resources. – Ed.)
NOW, more than ever, women need...
Road safety an attitude issue, too
LAST MONTH, a sport utility vehicle, motorcycle and passenger jeepney collided in Barangay Amamaros, Pototan, Iloilo. Eight individuals were injured. A month before that,...
Rabies control
MARCH is also Rabies Awareness Month. Did you know that pet-loving Filipinos filed a total of 79,925 Animal Bite Treatment Package (ABTP) claims with...
Women
TODAY is International Women’s Day. This month of March is also National Women’s Month. This movement can be traced back to a hundred years...
Thorough, coordinated probes
THE ASSASSINATION of Negros Oriental’s Gov. Roel Degamo over the weekend, which followed the separate ambush incidents on Lanao del Sur governor Mamintal Adiong,...
Mass transport
THE PHASEOUT of traditional jeepneys is a contentious matter. The debate has been going on for the past six years. But let’s take a...
Epidemic of e-cigarette use
WITH the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) announcing that it has intensified its enforcement activities to ensure vape products sold in the market...
March with women
MARCH is National Women’s Month. It reminds us the importance of women’s collective action in seeking social, economic and political rights.
Yes, there have been...
‘Squandered’
(Due to its significance, we yield this space to the statement of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines. – Ed.)
THAT day in...