Let’s build socialized dormitories
DORMITORIES must really be good business, because I see many of them being built all over Metro Manila. Unlike the condos that are for...
Minors as drug mules
SOME LAW enforcement officials are arguing that the minimum age for legal liability should be lowered, because criminals are using young children as drug...
Penology versus dev’t of detainees
THERE appears to be a conflict of interests in the role of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP).
While their agency name alludes...
Inclusive, 2
AS I UNDERSTAND, that is where NBB would become useful, because as it should happen, the government should still pay for the rest of...
Inclusive, 1
IN A MANNER of speaking, “inclusive growth” could just be a meaningless buzzword that could eventually lose its meaning in a sea of slogans.
Maybe...
Health and justice, 2
AS IT ALMOST always happens, most barangay health centers do not have doctors and if they do, they do not have medical equipment and...
Health and justice, 1
HEALTH and justice may be two separate social concerns, but there is an observable similarity between the two.
It has been said by some experts...
Healthcare
OBVIOUSLY, the number of casualties in a typhoon is beyond our control and we could not even say that it is preventable.
Perhaps, we could...
‘Malasakit’
ALTHOUGH it sounds like a profound word, the dictionary defines empathy as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another”.
I am very...
Contact the government
THE PHILIPPINES is the texting capital of the world, and yet not every government agency has a public cell phone number that anybody can...