Focus on agriculture
WHILE Western Visayas’ economy in 2020 contracted by 9.7 percent from its 6.3 percent growth in 2019, its agriculture, forestry, and fishing (AFF) sectors...
‘Flexible learning’
BEFORE saying that “flexible learning” would be the “new normal” for higher education institutions next school year, had the Commission on Higher Education (CHED)...
Immunization coverage
WHILE the focus right now is the vaccination against COVID-19, let’s not forget other vaccination programs such as for measles, polio, diphtheria, etc. The...
For the children
THE RECENT approval of the Senate on second reading of a bill which intends to address online sexual abuse and exploitation of children is...
Vaccine agnosticism
THE Department of Health (DOH) announced it will enforce a “brand agnostic policy” and require local governments not to announce the brand of vaccine...
Seriously lacking
TEN DAYS from now – on May 31 – is World No Tobacco Day. President Duterte signed an executive order n 2017 banning smoking...
A matter of survival
THE OTHER day this paper reported that the municipality of Carles, Iloilo was appealing for government assistance in its campaign against illegal fishing. The...
Justice for child rape victims
EVERY now and then we read reports of young girls being raped or perverts being charged and arrested for statutory rape. These are deeply...
For the sake of our OFWs
ONE of the priority measures Congress is tackling is the proposed creation of a department focused on overseas Filipinos. It should be able to...