A tricky situation
THE PROFESSIONAL Regulation Commission recently announced that 3,717 out of 4,542 passed the Physician Licensure Examination given on September 2018. These new doctors are...
Heightened vigilance
IT WAS World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. There were calls for heightened vigilance against an epidemic that has infected nearly 60,000 Filipinos and...
A descent to hell
(We yield this space to the statement of the peace advocacy group Kapayapaan Campaign for a Just and Lasting Peace due to its timeliness....
A turning point?
THE CONVICTION of Kian delos Santos’ killer cops should be a turning point for deep reforms in the Philippine National Police. Or we hope...
Women human rights defenders
A PLUNDER case does not necessarily mean imprisonment; but defending human rights may even cause one’s life. This is the observation of the Center...
Rapidly disappearing
WE HAVE an oversupply of nurses, teachers, criminologists, and information technology professionals and they mostly end up in call centers or they go overseas....
Conserving our seas
ILOILO City is currently hosting a four-day East Asian Seas (EAS) Congress which seeks to further strengthen the implementation of the Sustainable Development Strategy...
A serious public health concern
THIS PAPER reported last month that two more municipalities in Iloilo province managed to achieve zero defecation status – Lemery and Janiuay. They joined...
Trafficked women
THERE’S an ongoing 18-day campaign (Nov. 25 to Dec. 15) calling for an end to violence against women. In Region 6, it is being...
Heroes in the barangays
BY THE FIRST week of December, a total of 14,018 barangay service volunteers in Iloilo province would start receiving cash allowance of P4,000 each...