Mouths to feed
THE
NUMBER of families who experienced hunger slightly increased in the second
quarter of 2019, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed. In its survey
from June...
Never take for granted our teachers
SEPTEMBER is National Teachers Month.
It highlights the value of teachers in Philippine society.
This observance was formalized by
Proclamation No. 242 signed in Aug. 24, 2011...
Food disaster
IT’S THE start of the rice harvest
season (September). It is also the beginning of the end of the so-called tigkiriwi season. The Hiligaynon term
roughly...
Wishing for a food-secure PH
TWO YEARS ago, the government’s
economic managers pushed for more rice importation to temper the rising prices
of the staple food.
Now, with imported rice flooding...
Mental
THERE WERE five incidents of suicide
that this paper reported last month. Could there be more such cases but were
just not recorded by or reported...
Service, honor and justice
LAST week, 400 police recruits took oath as
members of the Philippine National Police in Camp Delgado, Iloilo City. Surely,
they must be very proud to...
Emotional and psychological torture
VICTIMS of
enforced disappearances are called
desaparecidos. Iloilo has at least two. The most prominent are Ilonggo
activists Maria Luis Posa-Dominado and Nilo Arado. Twelve years ago...
Exercising utmost care
EVERY
now and then we read in the pages of Panay
News about road mishaps, some even fatal. Who hasn’t heard of motorcycles
crashing against or being...
Public Employment Service Office
FOREMOST among the bills that Antique’s
first congresswoman, Loren Legarda, has filed is House Bill No. 631 mandating
that each of the country’s over 42,045 barangays...
K-12’s fault
MORE than the homework issue, Congress
should do a comprehensive assessment and review of the K-12 program, including
its curriculum to see its many flaws, which...