Untested mandatory distance learning IT’S just as well that the first day of the compulsory distance learning of grade school pupils and high school students has been moved to October 5. If it had not been postponed anew, we would have seen another day of chaos and confusion that accompany…

Act before it’s too late FOR the right reasons, jeepneys and tricycles are finally running up and down highways, roads and streets. That’s the good news. Now the bad news. The jeepneys and tricycle operators and drivers appear to be vengeful, making commuters suffer for their long period of deprivation,…

Make mayor, kapitan accountable OUR citizenry need not look further for an effective measure to protect their families from the COVDI-19 infection that could lead to their fatal deaths needlessly. The answer no longer lies with the national government. It has already prescribed the basic protocol to ward off infection,…

A mission for barangay brass, volunteers THE battle mode of the provincial government vs. COVID-19 is still mainly reactive, completely dependent on results of the Expanded Targeting Testing and contact-tracing. If efforts to make more towns and cities COVID-free, a pro-active approach must be set in place in tandem with…

Time for mayors, kapitans to step up AS the national and provincial government officials are doing all possible to contain the COVID-19 contagion at this critical stage when efforts are being balanced between restoring economic normalcy and minimizing the spread of infection, our citizens are visibly and grossly mistaking the…