Category: Columns

YELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta Ana III We just cannot party and dance the Cha-cha (Charter Change) when many are getting sick or dying. The current mood is not celebratory; it’s funereal. Cha-cha is simply dissonant. Besides, the...

YELLOW PAD By Maria Angela M. Villa BENZOIX / FREEPIK The advent of COVID-19 vaccines has created excitement. It engulfs everyone. Finally, after months of waiting while we put up our best defenses to protect the Filipinos, we...

YELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III This is how Wikipedia introduces the rabble-rouser:  “Gilda Cordero-Fernando (June 4, 1930 – August 27, 2020) was a Filipino writer, visual artist, fashion designer and...

YELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III BENZOIX/FREEPIK An otherwise comedic story if not for its disastrous effect could have well happened in the Philippines.   A clinic in West Virginia blundered and injected 42 people...

YELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta Ana III Bill Gates says “there is good news coming in 2021.”  But that’s not for the whole world. Perhaps there’s optimism in America, with Donald Trump exiting and a mass vaccination program being...

YELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III This year, 2020, is annus horribilis. The statistics are grim: close to 1.7 million people out of 76.1 million cases, globally, and still counting, have died from coronavirus...

YELLOW PAD By Rayla Melchor Santos Allertsen FREEPIK I didn’t know of the English idiom “elephant in the room” before. When I called my web designer and friend Cons Raquel to do the design for www.iamsamfoundation.com, it...

YELLOW PAD By Maria Carmela Agustin-Kasala, MD The year 2020 has certainly been such a different kind of year, what with the COVID-19 global pandemic changing our lives and our lifestyle. Who would have thought, earlier in the...

YELLOW PAD By Pia Rodrigo On 26 November 2020, the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) bill was passed on third and final reading in the Senate, marking the end of more than two decades of struggle for...

YELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III and Viviane Apostol JCOMP /FREEPIK “Build, Build, Build” has been the mantra of the Rodrigo Duterte administration, which undoubtedly was instrumental in the high economic growth before the...

YELLOW PAD By Filomeno Sta. Ana III The American people have chosen change. Joe Biden is their President-elect, having obtained more than the 270 electoral college votes needed to win. With respect to the popular vote, with 93%...