There is something to be said about the evolving pandemic situation brought about by the SARS CoV- 2 virus that causes COVID-19 and its many variants, the latest being the omicron variant. While it has already been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US that the omicron variant is […]
Continue ReadingWe are again scrambling to put back stringent measures such as heightened public health protocols as the world once more battens down the hatches in confronting the latest COVID-19 variant called Omicron. But even as preparations are being made to manage the omicron variant there are early reports that speak of the possibility that the […]
Continue ReadingI struggled a bit in preparing to present farming ideas and suggestions from a former Secretary of the Department of Agriculture (DA), and now running for a position in the Senate, that will go forward in the development for food sufficiency of the country, without appearing as if I am campaigning for the person. I […]
Continue ReadingThis 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 […]
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