Safe education
PRESIDENT Duterte has signed a new law adjusting the school calendar during a state of emergency or calamity such as the prevailing coronavirus disease...
Universal healthcare
NOT A FEW have expressed concern over the Philippine Health Insurance Corp.’s plan to postpone the full implementation of the Universal Health Care (UHC)...
Plastic-free
THERE is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner...
Bracing for the typhoon season
WITH the country now well into the most active period for typhoons, it would be wise for the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management...
Where’s the support?
LOCAL government units (LGUs) are getting frustrated with the Department of Education (DepEd), too. They are once again made to shoulder the costs of...
Committee on disinformation
(We yield this space to the statement of the Consortium on Democracy and Disinformation, a national network of journalists, academics and civil society representatives,...
Are you disaster-conscious?
JULY is National Disaster Consciousness Month by virtue of Executive Order No. 137 signed on Aug. 10, 1999 by then President Joseph Estrada to...
Devoid of fairness and justice
(We yield this space to the statement of the Commission on Human Rights due to its timeliness. – Ed.)
IT IS with concern that the...
This is when democracy starts to weaken
(Due to its timeliness, we yield this space to the statement of Ilonggo Senate Minority Leader Franklin M. Drilon on the House Committee on Legislative...
Child abuse
DID YOU know that this month is the 30th anniversary of the Philippines’ ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights the Child...