Long overdue probe
FOLLOWING President Duterte’s corruption claims, Public Works secretary Mark Villar ordered the creation of a task force to probe alleged anomalies in projects of...
Deep impact
SOMETHING unusual happened in Barangay Mapili, San Enrique , Iloilo, according to its residents. The poor farming barangay experienced a destructive flood on Oct....
‘The spring cannot rise above its source’
(We yield this space to the statement of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines due to its timeliness. – Ed.)
THE EFFORTS of the Department...
Teachers’ pandemic-related stress
A TEACHER’S suicide in Leyte Friday last week prompted calls for the Department of Education (DepEd) to address work-related causes of stress among teachers...
Savage
(We yield this space to the statement of the Public Interest Law Center due to its timeliness. – Ed.)
AUTHORITIES’ denial of even the slightest...
Online sexual abuse and exploitation
(We yield this space to the statement of the advocacy group Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns due to its timeliness. – Ed.)
ABUSES, violence and...
Life-saving information
IT WAS the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on Oct. 13. That it got very little attention in the Philippines on Tuesday –...
Teachers are frontliners, too
THE SCHOOLS Division of Iloilo recorded 18 cases of COVID-19 – nine teachers, two non-teaching personnel and seven students. As of Oct. 10, 10...
E-waste
DID YOU know that today is International E-Waste Day?
What is e-waste? It refers to various forms of electric and electronic equipment that have ceased...
DepEd’s ‘premature ejaculation’
THE DEPARTMENT of Education (DepEd) was quick to declare as a success the resumption of classes. Not a few slammed this premature and presumptuous...