No one is too poor to give

12/01/2018

These other kids have money to spend to give big donations; these came from the excess of what they have. We gave from our own supply of rice, which is a big sacrifice for us. I’ll never…

Why are our farmers still poor?

Fernando Fajardo 11/29/2018

We measure the success of agriculture programs by the increase in farm output, the increase in income of the farmers, and by the improvement in their well-being. It is now more than 70 years since independence and…

With $50 million debut, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is no poor boy

11/05/2018

NEW YORK—The Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” and 20th Century Fox are—for now, at least—champions of the world. “Bohemian Rhapsody,” starring Rami Malek as the late Queen frontman, shrugged off production troubles and mediocre reviews to debut…

High food prices tagged as poor families’ inflation hits 8%

Inquirer.net 10/22/2018

FOR AUGUST High food prices pushed up inflation among the country’s poorest families to 8 percent year-on-year in August, the government reported Monday. The rate of increase in prices of basic goods among those belonging to the…

Kill the excise tax, not the poor with higher prices

Fernando Fajardo 10/11/2018

What the government should do instead is to tax the sale of cars, with rates going up the more expensive the units. Then charge them with higher road user’s fee when they register their cars. Early this…

‘Paglaum’ gives hope to the poor, oppressed

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 10/01/2018

She had a dream that even the poverty of her family could not cripple. Twenty one-year-old Amelita Gatdula had a burning desire to finish college. Gatdula was among the beneficiaries of ‘Paglaum,’ a scholarship program of the…

PH ranks last in mobile video quality

Inquirer.net 09/26/2018

The Philippines has a long way to go in terms of delivering high-quality mobile video services, based on a crowdsourced survey conducted by OpenSignal, a wireless mapping company based in the United Kingdom. In the debut of…

COA flags CHEd’s poor spending of funds for free college tuition

Inquirer.net 08/16/2018

THE Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) has used only P1.45 billion out of the P8-billion funding for free tuition in state universities and colleges as of the end of 2017, according to the Commission on Audit (COA).…

Senate committee: Soaring inflation hurts poor families the most

Inquirer.net 08/07/2018

THE Senate Committee on Economic Affairs will give priority to identifying measures to mitigate the impact of the soaring inflation. Committee chairman Senator Win Gatchalian said this after the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) revealed that consumer prices…

Tambay is caused by poor governance

Fernando Fajardo 06/28/2018

The presence of tambays is a sign of poor governance that plagued our nation ever since greedy politicians took over the reins of government after our independence. They are there for the “fund” of it or because…

Poor promises

Editorial 06/18/2018

The next elections are still a good 11 months away but pronouncements by politicians underscore “election” in the phrase “election year” that describes the remaining months to May 2019. Voters therefore cannot be blamed for being doubly…

Agencies urged to release gov’t subsidies to poor families

Inquirer.net 06/04/2018

SENATOR Grace Poe on Monday said she would request concerned government agencies to immediately release the guidelines needed to provide subsidies to poor families and low-wage earners. Poe, who chairs the Senate committee on public services, said…

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