Frontliners, too

EVERYBODY agree that face-to-face classroom instruction is much better and more effective than the current online/modular/blended learning. Not a few are asking how soon...

Nuisance candidates

IT’S ONLY five months away before the filing of the Certificates of Candidacy (CoC) for those seeking an elective position in the 2022 elections....

Learning amid COVID

THE PROLONGED community quarantine is straining the education of students. For learning continuity, they certainly need gadgets and internet support. There have been reports...

A dishonor to healthcare workers

WHAT do we make of the perceived anemic pandemic response of the government? Have we effectively strengthened the public healthcare system? It seems that...

Come and join us

TIME SEEMS to have warped as we recall the humble beginning of this journalistic endeavor 40 years ago that seemed only yesterday. It is...

Human trafficking

MANY of our people who are looking for jobs abroad to escape grinding poverty at home have been victimized by human traffickers, even before...

Small acts, big change

IT WASN’T much of a big news when, on March 27 at 8:30 p.m., millions of people around the world – including Filipinos –...

Our pandemic cross

EVEN during Holy Week, there is no going around our current crosses – surging cases of COVID-19 and the national government’s inability to get...

Time to simplify

IN THIS time of coronavirus pandemic, the Holy Week offers us an opportunity to reconcile our faith-inspired subdued activities with what is good for...

Goal: vaccines for all

THE PROPOSAL to exclude certain firms from the government’s vaccine procurement program is idiotic. Such a move, if implemented, would hamper the efforts on...