Budget reform is not a show — it’s a commitment
IN THE PHILIPPINES, every peso matters. And every promise made through the national budget affects real lives—especially those of ordinary Filipinos. That’s why the...
Using the multidimensional poverty index
FOR YEARS, the government has relied on the Poverty Threshold Basket (PTB) method to measure poverty in the Philippines. This method assesses whether a...
That tells me all
I NEED to know! Know-it-all-better, who prefer an oppressing or suppressing crab mentality should be really out of place. They poison us and our...
Toxic workplaces don’t heal by accident: HR interventions that actually work, 1
IT WAS after my Master’s final exams, the kind that leaves your brain feeling like overcooked champorado, when my friends and I, still high...
The science behind superstitious beliefs, 2
JUMPING at midnight on New Year's Eve, a custom thought to encourage growth has an interesting connection to science. Although a single midnight jump...
Stronger ports, stronger plates
THE NEWLY modernized Iloilo Fish Port Complex – inaugurated by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. this Aug. 13 – is a strategic investment in...
Some notes on preaching God’s word
THE READINGS of the Mass on the 4th Week of Easter (cfr. Acts 12, 24-13,5; Jn 12,44-50) somehow remind us of the need to...
When maps change
RUSSIA and the United States are reported to be nearing a peace agreement with regard to Ukraine, though nothing is certain yet.
Rumors hint...
‘In a pickle’
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL-based Legacy Construction Corporation (LCC) is currently “in a pickle”. It topped the list of the country’s top 15 contractors that, according to...