IN ITS PREAMBLE, THE 1973 BASIC LAW DECLARES RIGHTLY THAT THE FILIPINO PEOPLE ARE SOVEREIGN, A REFERENCE TO THE 1935 CONSTITUTION BEING COLONIAL IN CHARACTER. “BLESSINGS OF INDEPENDENCE” BECAME “BLESSINGS OF DEMOCRACY”. “UNDER A RÉGIME […]
The pandemic has become a rare opportunity for banks to be good, and to upscale from being good to being simply great. Since banks are an invention of man, the pandemic is also an opportunity […]
A rather ponderously named Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR or simply the Panel) of the World Health Organization has called COVID-19 the 21st century’s Chernobyl moment—“not because a disease outbreak is like […]
Three bouts with COVID convinced RSA about two things: One, life can be short and death can be sudden; you cannot bring wealth to your grave, “not even your wrist watch,” he smiles. Two, a […]
At Monday’s (April 26) pre-State of the Nation Address (SONA) “Sulong” (Progress) televised presentation of the key cabinet departments of Rodrigo Roa Duterte, the president’s men tried to keep an upbeat, even bullish, mood—despite the […]
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