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Lizada: T-shirt

Rene Lizada / from 2 hours ago

WE ALL have a favorite t-shirt that we use at home. I actually have several home shorts in different colors. But my favorite happens to be white. And right now all these shirts have been washed and abused because of staying home.They give new meaning to the phrase home t-shirts. ...

Editorial: Rushing to quash disinformation

/ from March 02, 2021

NOW that the government has received vaccines for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the government and health authorities are now facing quite a big challenge: the disinformation on vaccines.There is a lot of disinformation regarding vaccines going around the internet. Individuals who are keen on spreading disinformation seem to have ...

Rene Lizada / from March 02, 2021

“The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?” -- John 4:11WE ARE guilty of this because our wells are too deep. And our wells could be anything really. Bitterness, greed, lust, ambition, materialism, ...

Editorial: A silver lining

/ from March 01, 2021

ON MARCH 1, 2021, the Philippines finally began with its vaccination program against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) following the arrival of 600,000 doses of Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac vaccine.Dr. Gerardo Legaspi, director of the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (PGH), was the first to receive a dose of CoronaVac. ...

Uyboco: Children are people

Andy Uyboco / from March 01, 2021

THE Agile Learning Centers' website (www.agilelearningcenters.org) contains two short sentences describing their philosophy on self-direction: People learn best by making their own decisions. Children are people.The first sentence is easy to understand when applied to adults. We practice basic respect for other people's choice of work, lifestyle, religion, recreation and ...

Mendoza: Cash allowance for teachers

Lorenzo E. Mendoza / from February 28, 2021

THE second quarter of school year 2020-2021 is about to end and as it was started, the Department of Education (DepEd) relies much on a modality heavy on modules with a little bit of digital, radio-based instruction, television-based instruction, and blended modality. Given the said situation and the need to ...

Editorial: Improving gains and sustaining it

/ from February 26, 2021

AFTER around three months of having around a hundred cases per day, Davao City is now seeing the gains of its efforts as the Covid-19 situation in the city has been improving.Davao City Health Office (CHO) Acting Head Dr. Ashley Lopez said beginning February 3, they have observed that active ...

Velez: Do we really understand the Lumad?

Tyrone Velez / from February 25, 2021

THE news of the “rescue” of Lumad students in a makeshift "Bakwit school" in the University of San Carlos in Cebu that led to arrests of their teachers and tribal leaders, and their return to Talaingod without their parents again raises confusion about what is the issue at hand.Authorities again ...

Pangan: Job losses and more

Benjie R. Pangan / from February 25, 2021

AS AN obvious consequence of the ferocity of the global pandemic, business establishments, big and small, decided to downsize or altogether close shop and as a result, their workers were displaced and laid off causing unspeakable results to themselves and their families.Figures generally don’t lie. Per reports culled by the ...

Lizada: Predictions

Rene Lizada / from February 24, 2021

OKAY. Everyone knows Nostradamus. The guy who made some accurate predictions. Most people thought that his looks into the future would have happened and ended at a certain time. However, if his scholars are to be believed, there is a lot more. In fact, some people who study his predictions ...

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