Affordable, accessible or even free
TO ENCOURAGE the general public to get tested as a way to control the spread of the contagious COVID-19 – and more so because...
Beyond lockdown
DUE TO rising COVID-19 infections and the threat of the more transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus, it is tempting for the national and...
Disconnect
IT WAS reported early this week that as of Jan. 3, 16,935 typhoon “Odette”-displaced families (84,458 individuals) were still in various evacuation centers in...
Bigger budget for devolved services
MOST 2022 budgets of local government units (LGUs) in Western Visayas are bigger than last year’s. Guimaras, for example, now has over P1-billion budget.
With...
Stop the division
(We yield this space to the statement of human rights group Panay Alliance Karapatan due to its timeliness. – Ed.)
A GROUP of teachers of...
Our burgeoning waste problem
AFTER a night of New Year celebrations, not a few woke up the morning after be in greeted with trash carpeting the streets, such...
Zero Waste Month
LITTERING, throwing and dumping of waste matters in public places such as roads, sidewalks, canals, esteros or parks, and establishment, or causing or permitting the...
The real disaster is if we never learn
IT’S NOW 2022 but we’re carrying over into the new year the huge burden left by 2021’s last but most devastating typhoon. According to...
Be creative, ditch firecrackers
IF YOU CAN help it, do not buy firecrackers. Considering their health and environmental impacts and the costly property damage due to fires, they...
The lessons of a life well-lived
TODAY we commemorate the 125th death anniversary or martyrdom of our national hero, Jose Rizal. Born in 1861, he would live to celebrate only...