Lockdowns are not enough
OUR healthcare workers have recommended not just a timeout. They raised to the President real and legitimate issues on the overwhelmed state of our...
Like a suicide mission
ARE WE really ready for a safe and quality back to school on Aug. 24? The Department of Education’s (DepEd) readiness for school year...
Outrageous plunder
THE President should walk his talk on ridding his government of corruption. All those involved in the “lost” P15-billion PhilHealth fund must be held...
Capital punishment
THE PHILIPPINES ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1986, reinforcing its commitment to promote and protect civil and political...
Silly
THE GOVERNMENT should concentrate on saving lives and quelling the coronavirus pandemic now and just allow the next administration to worry about the proposal...
Misplaced priority
PRESIDENT Duterte, in his fifth State of the Nation Address on July 27, called on Congress for the swift passage of a law reimposing...
Carnage of the poor
AS THE House’s Committee on Justice hears proposed bills for capital punishment for drug-related offenses and heinous crimes, let us take a look at...
Recession looms
LOOK at where we are today: 70,764 Filipinos are affected, COVID deaths running to nearly two thousand, five million of our people unemployed, 40...
Learning continuity during pandemic
PARTIAL results of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) survey showed that 8.8 million parent-respondents chose the modular learning system for the coming school year.
Parents...
COVID in workplaces
COVID-19 is real. Don’t let your guard down. Labor rights nongovernment organization Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) raised alarm over the...