Spotlight

At the stroke of midnight Monday, April 19, in the last seven minutes of a 97-minute cabinet meeting-cum-television show, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte discussed something close to his heart and now, fearsome to his five-year-old […]

By the end of this year, more than 150,000 Filipinos would have died from COVID-19.   They come from two generations of great Filipinos–those born from 1930 to 1960 and those born from 1961 to […]

In March 2020, President Duterte declared what became the world’s longest and severest lockdown this century.   The idea was to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus which has caused the world’s deadliest pandemic in […]

Within the next five years, a new city will be built on top of the waters of Manila Bay, 3kms from the shoreline of the present Roxas Boulevard, itself once reclaimed land.  The project is […]

Amid the pandemic, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) is staging a revolution in the Philippines’ transport infrastructure.  The massive overhaul and modernization will bring the present decrepit and fossilized transport system into the 21st century […]