A fitting tribute for our seafarers
AFTER languishing in the legislative mill for over a decade, the bill institutionalizing a Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers, which we co-sponsored, has finally...
A budget for dealing with the Delta variant
IT IS THAT time of the year again when we in Congress start buckling down to work on what some consider to be the...
Moving towards digital payments
BY THE TIME this column comes out, two of the country’s biggest e-commerce platforms — Lazada and Shopee — would be wrapping up their...
A simpler land titling system
THE DUTERTE administration has enacted several decisive measures aimed at making government processes simpler, more efficient, and more responsive to the Filipino peoples’ needs....
Education amid the pandemic
IN LESS than a month, school year 2021-2022 will officially open in all public and private schools. And what we’ll face is an education...
The importance of the Olympics
LAST July, New York Times columnist Lindsey Crouse wrote that despite the issues that constantly surround the Olympics — like the exorbitant amounts countries...
A multi-medal haul
WITH the Tokyo Olympics winding down this weekend, our countrymen are already reveling at the fact that for the first time in nearly a...
Dealing with the Delta variant
AS OF THE time this article was written, Philippine health authorities have detected no less than 114 infections of the COVID-19 Delta variant in...
More venues for licensure exams
UNLIKE other countries who have already vaccinated a significant portion of their population, the Philippines still finds itself in the early stages of its...
A Pensionado Program for our bright youth
EIGHTEEN-year-old Dominic Navarro graduated with honors from the Ilocos Region campus of the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) last May. Dominic is one of...