Media

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...

NAIA’s immediate problem is not its signage, but its bottomline, as travel lockdown may cut its 2020 revenues by as much as P10 billion—barely enough for the country’s gateway to keep payroll and the lights on, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said.  “NAIA is a...

Sending them home by boat was no Dunkirk-like evacuation, and yet it failed. The huddled, hungry, drenched stranded travellers painstakingly complied with all the health and police requirements, only to be denied boarding because of a new requirement. Their dreams of going home...

Pride marches celebrate equality so only the tone-deaf will respond to its commemoration with violence and intolerance. It is an internationally celebrated activity and it is only in lands ruled by bigotry that a Pride march and all the ideas it espouses are repressed – by...

Never were brilliant ideas articulated by a beautiful voice. Ask any old timer in Batasan, and Tony Cuenco’s voice was the most beautiful to ever reverberate in the halls of the House. His was also one of the most brave. It was heard loud and clear during the era when contrarian...

The police should be “unburdened” of the duty to issue travel passes, “a clerical job which draws them away from their far more important responsibilities,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “The most important requirement is the medical certificate issued by a...

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today called for a “1 book to 1 student” ratio in public schools, saying that a complete set of textbooks at home is needed by children to cope with online classes. “Broadband learning does not cancel the need for books. On the contrary—...