Beyond construction: Building a culture of classroom sustainability
AS REPORTED by this paper over the weekend, the Iloilo provincial government’s move to allocate P600 million from the Special Education Fund (SEF) to...
Le Affair West Philippine/South China Sea
AND SO, the dangling conversation on Le Affair West Philippine/South China Sea continues—quite timely, considering that then President Rodrigo Duterte declared every September as...
Toward the fullness of our humanity
“THAT they may be one, as we also are one.” (Jn 17, 11) Words of Christ just before he entered into the culminating act...
When nepo babies flaunt, 1
PAYDAY rain lashes the streets, traffic stalls, and floodwater creeps into tricycles. A nurse in slippers clutches her lunchbox, her phone flashing a reel:...
Life for a trafficked child in the sex industry, 2
THESE young girls are too ashamed to tell their parents of what happened to them. In the sex bar or brothel, the girls become...
Before the next typhoon hits: Why HR must go green now, 1
IT WASN’T until Typhoon Goring tore through our barangay in Antique a couple of years ago—its winds howling like a warning, floodwaters swallowing the...
Revival of the abaca industry
THE DECLINE of the abaca industry in the Philippines is a matter of national concern.
Despite the country remaining the world’s leading producer, supplying...
Fatty or not?
IN MY radiology practice, ultrasound is the most common screening diagnostic imaging for “Fatty liver”. Many young professionals are eventually referred by their Attending...
Confronting pandemic learning losses head-on
THE SCARS of the COVID-19 pandemic are not only measured in hospital records or economic downturns — they are also etched in the minds...