YELLOW 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...
Read MoreYELLOW PAD By Arjay Mercado and Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) is designated as a priority bill. It has also been issued a certificate of urgency by the President. In late...
Read MoreYELLOW 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...
Read MoreYELLOW 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...
Read MoreYELLOW 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...
Read MoreYELLOW 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...
Read MoreYELLOW 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...
Read MoreYELLOW 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...
Read MoreYELLOW 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...
Read MoreYELLOW 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...
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