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More than 150 newsrooms from around the world marked World News Day last Sept. 28. This, however, is not an occasion for journalists to pat themselves on the back for the work they do. Rather, the focus…
It is with a heavy but full heart that I bid farewell to the Philippines, my home for the last four years. As I think back to my November 2016 swearing-in, I recall vividly the immense pride…
With the havoc being wrought by COVID-19 on our health system, a fixation on daily statistics of infection, deaths, and recovery is inevitable. However, the focus on the pandemic’s collateral damage to other health issues—which by themselves…
The call for the speedy reopening of the economy is gaining ground as the Philippines sinks into the worst recession in three decades. As early as July, in fact, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry had…
As my children gear up for a fully online school year this August, I found myself putting together my own tantum quantum strategies based on what has worked for me during this pandemic. Tantum quantum is a…
There’s a school in Mactan called Einstein School Cebu that is welcoming students for the new school year. It’s apparently been educating children from pre-school to high school for some time. Now it boasts of new technology…
What a week! Whatever President Duterte had in mind when he tore into the biblical story of Creation and called God “stupid,” the incident has been the most revealing yet of the nature of this president and,…
In Matthew 20: 1-16, the Evangelist narrated the famous Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. Matthew said, “for the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers…
Only when I moved to Cebu after many years abroad did I realize that a large number of Koreans live in the Philippines. Indeed, surveys show that in 2017 a million Koreans arrived in the country; at…
The Dengvaxia controversy took the nation by storm, only whipped off the front pages by a series of devastating typhoons during the holidays. Uncertainties remain, worry looms in the hearts of mothers, at least. And they are…
By many measures, the Philippines is middling both in the sense of being mediocre and medium-sized, and literally in the middle geopolitically and culturally. Many studies bear this out. The UN Human Development Index 2016 report ranks…
Should Social Welfare Secretary Judy Taguiwalo back off from protecting child soldiers and refuse to disavow the New People’s Army when asked pointblank? Sen. Tito Sotto should have asked these during Taguiwalo’s confirmation hearing, not made inane…
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