Local databases of senior citizens
DEAR Mr. President:
If I may ask, how can the barangay councils effectively provide services to their senior residents if they do not know who...
Private rooms in public hospitals
BY IKE SEÑERES
IN THEORY, all services in all public hospitals should be 100% for free, meaning that patients need not pay, not even a...
Cultural Christianity
I HAVE always joked about the fact that the Philippines could not be a Christian country, because countries do not go to heaven, only...
Local area networks
I HAVE been managing Local Area Networks (LANs) since my days as a director of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the Department of Foreign...
Danger zones and hazard maps
IN THE aftermath of the recent landslide tragedy in Antipolo City, a local official said that they have been offering alternative safe housing to...
Competing with Swiss chocolate
THE LAND area of the Philippines is about seven times bigger than that of Switzerland.
Cacao does not grow in Switzerland, but they are smart...
The difference between sewage and sewerage
I THINK many people do not know the difference between sewage and sewerage, so I decided to do some research about it.
To make a...
Community biogas systems
VERY FEW people would remember the old Manila Gas Corporation (MGC), a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) that was abolished in 2014 during the...
Inaccessibility and deprivation
IN THE conventional method, poverty is measured in terms of the inability of households to be able to afford the “imaginary basket of goods”....
Defining what is ‘food poor’
DOES anyone know what the term “food poor” means?
As far as I know, a person is considered poor if he or she is part...