This week saw throngs of politicians converging at the COMELEC designated sites to file their certificates of candidacy (COCs) as they aspire for the various elective positions up for grabs. They have more or less six months beginning this November 2021 up to the last week of April 2022 to convince voters they are who […]
Continue ReadingIn the scramble to strike a balance between imposing measures aimed at coping with the COVID pandemic and providing avenues to stimulate the flagging economy a law was recently signed just a couple of days ago by President Rodrigo Duterte that provides a new tax scheme for Philippine Gaming Offshore Operations (POGOs), amending and adding […]
Continue ReadingThere is no easy way of putting it out but experts in the medical field have already expressed their gravest warning that things are about to get worse because of the persistent spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant in all parts of the globe.The latest reports coming out in the media point to the adoption […]
Continue ReadingWhile browsing in Facebook the other day I came upon a short video posted in social media which attempted to argue that vaccines and being inoculated are simply a waste of time and a useless effort in the war against the COVID-19 virus. The video came up with several premises that while based on real […]
Continue ReadingIn less than a year we would again witness a re-calibration of power, a sort of changing of the guards if that is to be believed, transitioning from those politicians who are presently wielding it to another set of politicians eager to showcase their supposed servant-leader skills in the dispensation of public service. But look […]
Continue ReadingWhile the COVID epidemic rages on there is another troubling epidemic that has spread pretty much all over South East Asia. This is the methamphetamine outbreak that, as one international media (CNN) has bluntly put it, “ one of the world’s most intense drug crises”. Here in the country where the campaign against illegal drugs […]
Continue ReadingAs far as collateral damage goes the savage death in Masbate of Kieth Absalon, a 21-year-old bemedalled football player for Far Eastern University (FEU), brought about by the explosion of a landmine planted by members of the New Peoples Army (NPA), is a rude wake up call and revelation of the despicable and abhorrent nature […]
Continue ReadingEven with the COVID-19 pandemic going on politicians, both those in power and those wanting to be in power, are already gearing up for the political circus which we call an election this coming 2022. There is nothing more disgusting than seeing these kind of people make a spectacle of themselves by going after each […]
Continue ReadingBrowsing over the social media in the internet I finally came upon the Resolution from the national Electrification Administration (NEA) Board of Administrators that basically emasculated the Board of the Benguet Electric Cooperative (BENECO) in its authority, as provided by law, to choose who will sit down as the next General Manager of the local […]
Continue ReadingMore than a year into the coronavirus pandemic we are beginning to see the resilience manifested by nations affected by the crisis. For most of the countries that have been hit hard by the disease, whether poor or rich nations, the aggressive struggle to survive the onslaught of the virus and attempt a return to […]
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