Avoiding waste in the time of pandemic
THIS PAPER recently reported that in Iloilo province, 36 towns already have 10-year solid waste management plans approved by the National Solid Waste Management...
Safety-conscious shopping
WITH the coronavirus pandemic limiting people’s movements, online shopping is seeing a surge. Consumers are finding this safer and more convenient at this time...
Outright treason
(We yield this space to the statement of Indigenous Peoples network KATRIBU due to its timeliness. – Ed.)
IN 2016, the Permanent Arbitration Court ruled...
Extremely appalling
AT LEAST 15 children were sexually abused and exploited online in a cybersex den raided recently. It was the family members who were forcing...
Increase state support
A SURVEY of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) assessing the first half of school year 2020–2021 revealed persisting problems in access to distance...
Essential workers
IF THE government wants to relax quarantine restrictions further and inject life back to the sputtering economy, then it must speed up the vaccination...
Waste workers
THERE were reports a few weeks ago about medical wastes, specifically how they were disposed. Missed in the reporting were the people taking charge...
Vulnerable to abuse
AS THE country plunges deeper into crisis brought by the coronavirus pandemic and its socioeconomic impact, the vulnerability of children to sexual abuse and...
An opportunity for recovery
DID YOU KNOW that May is the “Month of the Ocean”? This annual observance seeks to focus the public’s attention to issues and concerns...
Education frontliners
ACCORDING to an online survey of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers, more than 70 percent of teacher-respondents deem that distance learning workload has negative...