THE Philippines faces a shortage of about 127,000 nurses, driven mainly by low local wages, poor working conditions, and large-scale migration to higher‑paying countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom…
Early last month, at Ateneo, a retired Singaporean diplomat and scholar, Kishore Mahbubani, 78, tackled an issue which he said “is an extremely difficult topic,” torn as he was with being diplomatic and being “honest…
Our country keeps managing poverty instead of ending it.
A NATIONAL budget is more than a ledger of government expenses. It is a public statement of what the state values, whose needs it recognizes, and how it intends to use the money collected from the people. Yet for a long…
This is not about auto mechanics or my suki talyer which can fix any bangga and make the car look like new.
WE Filipinos know what to do after a strong earthquake. Before we declare the danger over, we check what is still standing, what shifted, and what might give way if another tremor happens. The United States just had an…
Even the business sector is worried over the proposed new immigration fee of P480 per passenger.
A nation's resilience is not measured by how much adversity it can endure, but by how well its people prepare, respond, recover, adapt, and emerge stronger together. That, to me, is the essence of “resilience…
For the remaining weeks of this year, two things will dominate our public deliberations: the impeachment drama and the effort to straighten out the mangled 2027 General Appropriations Bill that came out of the House of…
OF all the writings of the late general Emilio Jacinto, the essays that constitute “Liwanag at Dilim” (Light and Darkness) is his great legacy to the Filipino people. It tells us what we should be as citizens, as…
As of yesterday, portions of Bulacan remained flooded despite the ongoing dry spell from El Niño.
LAST week, the Department of Energy (DOE) hosted the Philippine Nuclear Regulatory Framework Workshop, another step in the country’s slow shuffle toward its ambition to deploy nuclear energy. The workshop covered a…
YES, after three decades, the ghosts of the tragic Marcopper incident continue to haunt the province of Marinduque and to spotlight the role of politics in the delay of its final verdict. To this day, many continue to…
LAST week, America's Democrats delivered one of the most lopsided midterm election results in modern memory. They took the House of Representatives with more than 250 seats and captured the Senate. One of them even won…
THERE is wisdom in the saying, “Targets determine the results.” It suggests that any organization that narrows down how it measures performance could mistakenly produce results that are counter-intuitive to what it…
SOMETHING monumental has taken place in the past couple of weeks when it comes to citizen participation in the national budget. We may call it the “Revenge of the Nerds.” A small group of idealistic young geniuses who…
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