Being fair to our OFWs
IT MAKES SENSE to have a government department
that concentrates on overseas Filipino workers. Right now we have several
government agencies pertaining to them but are...
Department for OFWs
SIX AGENCIES under the Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Office of
the President (OP) are likely to...
The stage is set
(We
yield this space to the statement of the human rights alliance Karapatan due to
its timeliness. – Ed.)
EIGHTEEN States defied fake news,
disinformation and threats as...
A step towards justice, accountability
ON JULY 11, 2019 the United Nations
Human Rights Council (UNHRC) voted to pass the resolution tabled by Iceland,
which asked member-states to take concrete steps...
A serious sanitation and health issue
LAST MONTH the Provincial Health Office of
Iloilo officially declared the municipality of Pototan to have achieved zero
open defecation (ZOD) status, Level 1 which means...
Ill-prepared for disasters
DOES your local government unit have an
evacuation center? A report in this paper yesterday asked this question. It
called attention to the importance of local...
Strict enforcement of environmental laws
ONE big thing
learned from last year’s Boracay debacle – its closure for six months primarily
due to the abuse and misuse of its environment –...
Investing in the future thru teachers
SEVERAL senators have proposed a huge
pay raise for public school teachers. This is long overdue, actually, This
increase could finally make it through 18th Congress,...
What is the future of PH agriculture?
IN HER RECENT State of the Region Address,
Regional Development Council chairperson and Antique governor Rhodora Cadiao
said Western Visayas’ agriculture, forestry and fishery sectors decelerated...
It takes a village to raise a child
THE RESULTS of
the 2018 Expanded National Nutrition Survey by the Department of Science and
Technology - Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) presented on
June 24...