The world’s foremost experts on global warming gathered in an emergency meeting in Copenhagen last week to warn politicians to act now to minimize the impact of what they described could be ‘irreversible’ climate shifts and hopefully save a world that they said was “on the brink.” The 2,500 scientists from 80 countries who attended the conference warned… Read More »
Amid all the bad news coming from the Philippines, one bright spot came to focus this week when Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said the government will continue to focus on tourism, saying it will be the country’s hedge against the global economic crisis. While the overseas Filipino sector remains one of the biggest contributors to the Philippine economy, the… Read More »
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the beneficiary of the second People Power, last Sunday played again the role of the ungrateful daughter of EDSA when she said that the world would condemn a third EDSA. “The world embraced EDSA 1 in 1986. The world tolerated EDSA 2 in 2001. The world will not forgive an EDSA 3 but will instead… Read More »
Education officials in the Philippines had another not-so-bright idea last week on how to improve the standard of education in the country. This time, the Commission on Higher Education, initially endorsed by the Presidential Task Force for Education, wanted a five-year schedule for several college courses, such as education, accounting, nursing, physical therapy and occupational therapy. In 2004,… Read More »
Like many Americans, I wished I were in Washington last Tuesday to personally witness the unfolding of history and hope during the inauguration of the first African-American to become president of a nation that struggled through a great civil war and centuries of civil rights battles to arrive at this stage of its history. It was fitting that… Read More »
I hate to discuss politics at a time when people all over the world, including Filipinos in America and in the homeland, are facing a gloomy year. But knowing how deep the country is immersed in politics, dirty or otherwise, we cannot help but believe that the direction of the Philippine economy will ultimately depend on how politics… Read More »
After quietly celebrating Christmas Day, many people must now face reality and ask themselves: What’s ahead in 2009? How are we going to cope? The past year, with all its problems, is better left forgotten. The new year always brings new hope, but with last year’s problems threatening to worsen and bring about even bigger problems, many people… Read More »
I must admit I was wrong. But so were Bob Arum and Freddie Roach. In a previous article, entitled “Not exactly a mismatch,” I dared defy veteran boxing writers and experts and even some Filipinos, who said the “Dream Match” between Oscar de la Hoya and Manny Pacquiao was a mismatch, and that De la Hoya would just… Read More »
When former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc-Joc” Bolante finally appeared before the Senate on Friday, senators thought his two-year detention at an immigration holding cell in the United States had softened him and he would spill the beans on the P728-million fertilizer scam. They had another think coming. His health restored after relaxing for more than a week in… Read More »
While America was upholding the result of decades of battle for civil rights by electing an African American to the presidency, tens of thousands of Californians were institutionalizing inequality, injustice and bigotry by passing Proposition 8, which sought to ban gay marriages in California. They wanted to include in the state constitution a provision that would deprive a… Read More »