Not fully grasped
The people’s inability to fully understand the term used by weather experts partly explains the big number of casualties killed during the onslaught of typhoon Yolanda.
Storm surge is indeed rather vague and unfamiliar. People...
On feeding program budget
The move of the Senate to increase the Department of Education (DepEd) budget for school feeding from P3.97-billion to P7.58-billion is commendable enough but it could have ill-effects and disadvantages if the program implementation...
Alibis and justifications
Six months after megastorm Yolanda created an unprecedented destruction across the Visayas largerly Leyte and Samar islands, various humanitarian agencies reported how far they have gone in their recovery and rehabilitation efforts. Thanks to...
Hunger for power
An abused Tagalog cliche states, “Sa taong gusto maraming paraan at sa taong ayaw maraming dahilan.” Pres. Noynoy Aquino though attempting to convey this adage was not able to quote it in such phrase...
“…A Dismal Failure”?
Senator Franklin Drilon, a minority leader revealed that based in the official record on the implementation of the “Build-Build-Build” program of this administration has failed to realize its objective. Of the 75 flagship projects...
Wheels of justice grind not only slowly but releases doubtful results
Former President now Representative of Pampanga Gloria Macapagal Arroyo could be celebrating profusely now with the decision of the Ombudsman clearing her of any involvement of that much talked-about corrupt practice in the P728...