YELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Photo courtesy of the author Good old pal Melo posted on his Facebook account: “I was scheduled for vaccination today. When I found out na Sinovac, I declined.” Our common friend...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III FREEPIK “I ordered Secretary Galvez to sign any and all documents that would allow the private sector to import at will.” President Rodrigo Duterte delivered said statement on March 29,...
Read MoreThis piece was originally published in Newsbreak on August 29, 2005. It is being re-uploaded on the occasion of Nini Quezon Avanceña’s 100th birthday. AN EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN OF RULING-CLASS ORIGIN By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III For Easter 2021, amid the many deaths we witness, the message of Resurrection has all the more become relevant. But instead of attempting to write some sort of a secular homily on...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Pia Rodrigo, Eddie Dorotan, and Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III PHILIPPINE STAR/MICHAEL VARCAS The government’s hospital hotline has been “overwhelmed with calls.” The mobile phones of hospital staff have been “ringing...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Scott B. Halstead, MD WIRESTOCK-FREEPIK In 2018, together with colleagues, I agreed that “vaccine confidence has suffered following the [dengue] vaccine scare, and that trust needs to be rebuilt before the next...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Eddie G. Dorotan INBEVEL3-FREEPIK There is so much to learn from 2020 as we go ahead in 2021 and beyond. In normal times, when we look at our cities, we are resigned to see poverty and inequality, inadequate...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Pia Rodrigo A reality I have come to accept is the painfully slow pace at which social change usually takes place — and the backslides and regressions that often occur after a seemingly game-changing reform...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Jessica Reyes-Cantos PHILIPPINE STAR/MICHAEL VARCAS Several decades ago, when Cory Aquino was our President, the price of galunggong (mackerel scad) was the barometer of how better or worse off the people were....
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III PCH.VECTOR/FREEPIK The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) has proposed the further easing of quarantine restrictions. From GCQ (general...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By AJ Montesa and Pia Rodrigo VECTORPOUCH/FREEPIK When the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Bill was passed in the Senate in November 2020, a bicameral conference committee (bicam) was...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III BW FILE PHOTO Congress has finally ratified the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act (CREATE) bill. But controversy still hounds its passage in Congress. CREATE is a...
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