The “sana all” principle must be applied to the salaries of health workers in government, because a pay raise for one should cause a raise for all. The Salary Grade (SG) 15 entry level position of nurses should be recognized as the new benchmark for compensation for all licensed

The message is more important than where the messenger is.  Laurel did not deliver any, Osmeña just once, and Quirino via radio from a hospital bed in Baltimore, Maryland, USA where he was recuperating. The principal audience of the SONA are not the politicians inside the

Health-related announcements are better left to doctors. If the nation is the patient, let those trained to have good bedside manners announce the treatment.  We have to choose and curate the words we use, so nothing will be lost in translation and transmission.  We

Malacañang should augment the OFW assistance fund of the Department of Foreign Affairs, as the surge in Filipinos losing their jobs abroad has reduced the P1 billion fund to P300 million.  “That lifeline to our kababayans will be gone soon at the rate it is being

DTI should barter that off-the-cuff statement with common sense, and exchange it with a clarificatory statement that no law is being violated by neighbors swapping goods in the community chat group.  When you exchange a tax-paid shirt too small for you for tax-paid shorts

At a time when we need every media outlet to disseminate life-saving information, we don’t shut down the one with the widest reach.  When each and every job must be saved, we don’t cause the wholesale unemployment of thousands. When we need every tax peso collected so

What’s the use of a barrier when couples hold hands in going to the motorcycle, and kiss each other goodbye after the ride?  As a virus shield, it is as effective as installing a concrete road divider on the matrimonial bed. Isn’t the protection offered them by the

An Actgranting Tax Exemptions And Fee Privileges To Special Purpose Vehicleswhich Acquire Or Invest In Non-Performing Assets, Setting The Regulatory Framework Therefor, And For Other Purposes  In anticipation of the increase in bad loans to an unprecedented level and to help

An Act Increasing The Minimum Salary Grade Level Of Social Worker Position From Salary Grade 11 To Salary Grade 15 And Providing Funds Therefor Despite the social workers’ invaluable contributions, their salaries lag behind those of other helping professions such as nurses and

An Act Requiring The Digitalization Of Frontline Services Of All Government Agencies And Appropriating Funds Therefor Coverage: National Government Agencies, Local Government Units, and Government-Owned or Controlled Corporations and other government instrumentalities that