Towards a greener city
IT WAS a year ago when Iloilo City turned to communal vegetable gardening to augment food supply in the middle of a public health...
Balance health and the economy
OUR RECOVERY from the coronavirus pandemic will be determined by how our government effectively addresses the many challenges related to the COVID-19 health crisis....
Irresponsibility on the road
WE’VE lost count of road accidents involving motorcycles, many of them fatal. Most of the time, these were due to recklessness, and specifically driving...
Ramp up efforts for face-to-face classes
THE FURTHER reduction of participating schools in the pilot run of limited face-to-face classes of the Department of Education – from 120 schools to...
Heed science, be decisive
THE PANDEMIC is not the only threat we face today. Climate change is also a big threat that has already taken so much away...
Misfits
WHAT DO we make of the Department of Justice’s belated drug war review, with policemen as primary subjects?
One thing is clear. Many of our...
Assault on the living and the dead
DUE TO the COVID-19 pandemic, the turnout of people in cemeteries is expected to be lower this year. The Inter-Agency Task Force for the...
Face to face with fear
THE FURTHER reduction of the number of participating schools in the pilot run of limited face-to-face classes of the Department of Education (DepEd) is...
What are their plans?
A RECENT survey of the Social Weather Stations showed that nine out of 10 Filipinos are worried they might get COVID-19. It also revealed...
Hungry
AN ESTIMATED 3.4 million families (13.6%) experienced involuntary hunger – hunger due to lack of food to eat – at least once in the...