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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Orlando Carvajal

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Carvajal: Shortsighted

GOING back to the discourse on education, I contend that it is shortsighted to think our education woes can be solved by building more schools. We have to have fewer students to educate or we will never have enough schools.In ...

From 4 days ago

Carvajal: Betrayal

CAMBRIDGE English Dictionary defines “Independence” as the “Freedom from being governed or ruled by another country;” and/or the “Ability to live your life without being helped or influenced by other people.” Notable synonyms are sovereignty, self-rule, self-sufficiency and self-reliance.We are ...

From 6 days ago

Carvajal: Impossible unless

“The Department of Education protects and promotes the right of all citizens to quality basic education.”—DepEd WebsiteYou can’t articulate DepEd’s mission any more unequivocally. Yet pertinent education figures prove this to be impossible of fulfillment.We don’t have 2019 enrollment figures ...

From 11 days ago

Carvajal: Visioning for Cebu

FUNDAMENTALLY wrong with outgoing mayor Tomas Osmena’s administration was that he limited himself to what he wanted to do and listened to nobody sounding off on what needed to be done. Unlike forward-looking yet already highly-livable cities in the world ...

From 13 days ago

Carvajal: For sale

EDUCATION is another issue I will belabor, again until something breaks.Schools open soon and laments are in the air on the perennial lack of classrooms. Brigada Eskwela is just one more proof of government’s less than full budgetary commitment to ...

From 18 days ago

Carvajal: Filipino Moses

WE ARE finite creatures and able to grasp only facets of truth at a time. It is only by coming together and pooling our individual facets of truth that we gain a deeper understanding of the moment’s relevant truth and ...

From 20 days ago

Carvajal: Snobbery

UNTIL something breaks, I will belabor the point that we have two gaping chasms to bridge to get to a place we could call genuine democracy. Our myth of a democracy lacks the two essentials of majority rule and proportionate ...

From 25 days ago

Carvajal: Hope not a strategy

WE JUST had our midterm elections, and losers, as usual, let fly angry words about vote-buying, coercing, and cheating that detract from a free and fair electoral exercise.But then, as usual, before one knows it, everything stops. A pall of ...

From 27 days ago

Carvajal: Friend or foe (2)

MARTIN Jacques, British political commentator, observes that Western developed countries, the U.S. among them, are scrambling (my term) to prepare for a China-dominated global future. Ten years ago they didn’t think it was possible but American multinational group Goldman Sachs ...

From 32 days ago

Carvajal: Friend or foe

LAST I looked, disputes are settled in either of two ways, amicably (win-win as friends) or inimically (win-lose as enemies). Thus I cannot understand why some people insist that President Duterte’s amicable way amounts to a surrender of our sovereign ...

From 34 days ago

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