THE coconut industry is one of the pillars of our country’s economy. Some 20 million Filipinos, including 2.5 million workers, depend on the coconut industry for their livelihood and well-being. About 2.7 million hectares of land are planted to coconut trees. The Bicol provinces, Samar, Leyte, and Q
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TO denigrate him, the enemies of Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, call him a populist, as if that were the greatest insult in the glossary of political science. Frankly, there is nothing inherently diabolic about populism, if you ask me.
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GOVERNMENT has caught the Olympic spirit. It’s a "swifter and better’’ administration of justice, with new Secretary Raul Gonzales.
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IT was a long wait for the Philippines to get a turn at the Security Council, which is the exclusive governing body of the United Nations.
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IN keeping with the self-sacrifice that departments and offices are asked to offer to help buoy up the government’s financial position, the House committee on foreign affairs has suggested the abolition of the country’s embassies and consulates that "serve no function in the foreign service."
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(Speech of President GLORIA M. ARROYO at the Philippine National Police Change of Command Ceremony, Camp Crame Parade Ground, August 23, 2004.)
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(PNP Chief, Police Director General HERMOGENES E. EBDANE JR., at the PNP turnover of Command ceremony, 23 August 2004, Camp Crame.)
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(Speech delivered by incoming PNP Chief Deputy Director General EDGAR BATALLA AGLIPAY during the PNP Command turnover rites yesterday held at Camp Crame, Quezon City.)
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WE, the people, by our attitude may be driving our government to over-reach and become over-ambitious. We set very high expectations of what the government must do. Many of us want it to do almost everything for us. At the same time, we prefer to leave the paying of taxes to all others save ourselve
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MANILA Mayor Jose "Lito" L. Atienza Jr. has shown not only his concern for the safety of broadcast and print journalists in this country, but also his imagination and initiative in proposing that a strong witness protection program be set up to embolden eye witnesses to report on killers or harm doe
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"I want what I want when I want it."
— Henry Blossom
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RECONCILIATION among the major warring political groupings in the country is very possible.
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John 1:45-51
P HILIP found Nathanael and
told him, "We have found the on
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TUBERCULOSIS (TB) is one of the top ten killer diseases in the Philippines today. Yearly, some 70,000 Filipinos die from this infectious disease. Thus, for many years now our government has been battling this disease in its efforts to promote the health and well-being of our people.
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C OMING home from the USA and passing through the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) of Manila, I can’t help but think of the newly cons
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THE President asserted that the country was in the midst of a financial crisis but members of her economic team and her spokesman said that that wasn’t exactly what she meant.
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THE farmer was the envy of every one who met him. Even those who only heard of him expressed admiration and a secret wish to be like him. For the farmer had a fantastic memory.
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IT is common knowledge that the country’s fiscal position is near crisis mode, but for President Arroyo to declare that "we are already in the midst of a fiscal crisis’’ is something else.
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(Speech delivered by Secret-ary of Foreign Affairs AL-BERTO G. ROMULO, August 23, 2004.)
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TODAY, the Oriental Republic of Uruguay celebrates the 179th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence.
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(Privilege speech by JIMMY LOPEZ, Rep. of Tondo, Manila on the Filipino language as the nation’s linguistic symbol of unity delivered on August 9, 2004, in the Session Hall of the House of Representatives).
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TUBERCULOSIS, often called TB, is a disease that develops slowly and can lead to chronic poor health and death if it is not treated.
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(Editor’s note: Taxpayers in Singapore get a fair return in various forms cited in this article.)
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Matthew 23:27-32
J ESUS said, "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocr
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