Conservation versus restoration
I CHECKED the meanings of patrimony and heritage and I was pleasantly surprised that these two words are practically synonymous to each other.
Patrimony is...
Expanding primary healthcare
(Continued from Jan. 22 issue)
THANKS to Information and Communications Technology (ICT), it is now possible to virtually talk to a doctor remotely, and that...
Expanding primary healthcare
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...
Between political parties and individual personalities
WE HAVE BEEN a democratic Republic for more than one hundred years, and yet we do not have a strong multi-party system yet.
As it...
Reinventing universal healthcare
AT THE OUTSET, I originally thought that aiming for zero casualties in a typhoon or zero backlogs in a maze of bureaucratic targets.
Eventually, I...
Technology and empathy
AS FAR AS I can remember, my late brother, former Ambassador and Congressman Roy Villareal Seneres was the only public official who kept talking about empathy...
Public cell phone numbers
IT’S REALLY a grand irony that our country is the texting capital of the world, and yet not every government agency has a public...
First responders network
I would not usually want to compare what a first world country with what a third world country is doing or not doing, but...
Opposite of monopoly
IT IS CLEAR that an industry is in effect a duopoly if there are only two players. That may just be a play of...
Technologies for universal healthcare
AS I UNDERSTAND IT, universal healthcare means that “anyone should be able to access healthcare anytime from anywhere at any time”. That would be...