‘Lockdown babies’
THE Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) recently brought to public attention the pre-pandemic 2019 increase in the number of teenage pregnancies. This should...
Bad road conditions
PUBLIC utility jeepney drivers opposing the new, more stringent motor vehicle inspection requirement –to ensure their road worthiness – prior to the renewal of...
Robust primary healthcare system
THE COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity for the government to improve our healthcare system. Let’s not forget that we face other health concerns such...
Within sustainable limits
MONDAY next week, Feb. 15, the three-month fishing ban in the Visayan Sea would be lifted. The yearly ban aims to conserve sardines, herrings...
Red-tagging journalists
(We yield this space to the statement of human rights alliance Karapatan due to its timeliness. – Ed.)
IT SEEMS that for the National Task...
A better perspective
FOR MOMENT, let us step back from the ongoing ruckus over Land Transportation Office’s Memorandum Circular No. 2018-2158 on motor vehicle inspection, and the...
At risk
THE Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration earlier said La Niña is likely to continue until March. This means above normal rainfall would...
Long-term impacts of pandemic
THE NATIONAL and various local government units are devising ways to address the daily impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. They should not forget the...
Wanted: vaccinators
ACQUIRING COVID-19 vaccines and ensuring that we have more than enough supply is important. But let us also make sure we have sufficient vaccinators....
Close down garbage dumps
THERE’S a renewed effort by the environmental authorities to enforce an important but much violated provision against dumping under Republic Act (RA) 9003, or...