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National Migrant Workers’ Day
REPUBLIC Act 8042, the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995, instituted policies governing overseas employment and established a higher standard of protection and promotion of the welfare of migrant workers, their families, and overseas Filipinos in distress. The law came at a time when the number of migrant workers, later to be referred to as Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), had reached a total annual deployment of close to a million.
Perspective on Pimentel
NENE" Pimentel was not, in the late "Doroy" Valencia’s words, a "steak commando" during the martial law years. He was arrested several times for being a rebel. It was only political prudence that prevented his death, unlike the case with many others who were expendable.
The nation gained from TV scolding
IT took a public scolding in front of TV cameras of Education Secretary Fe Hidalgo by President Arroyo on whether there was a shortage of classrooms to finally provide long overdue solutions, although too late for the school year.
Bush raps gay unions to boost sagging image
WASHINGTON — With the situation in Iraq all but stable, high gasoline prices weighing on the minds of US consumers, large federal deficits, a national debate over immigration reform and a crisis brewing over Iran’s nuclear program, President George W Bush chose to defend the institution of marriage in his weekly radio address.
NBA finals and US midterm elections
THIS year’s NBA Finals promises yet another exhilarating series of basketball action. Excitement escalates as the Dallas Mavericks meet the Miami Heat in a best-of-seven series for the 2006 NBA Championship crown. Both are first timers in the championship arena. The Miami Heat team defeated the Detroit Pistons with a 4 wins, 2 loses standing that won for them the Eastern Conference title. The Dallas Mavericks, on the other hand, managed to emerge as this year’s Western Conference Champions, beating the Phoenix Suns and ending their Western Conference series with the same win-loss ration as Miami Heat. However, while NBA fans from all over the world await the beginning of the NBA 2006 finals, other Americans look into the also much awaited match of the year – not in the hard court – but in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
LAST April 23 to May 4, a group of pilgrims with me serving as chaplain, traveled to the Holy Land to visit the biblical sites where Jesus was born, lived, taught and died.
The question about the resurrection
SOME Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to [Jesus] and put this question to Him, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’ Now there were seven brothers. The first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants. So the second married her and died, leaving no descendants, and the third likewise. And the seven left no descendants. Last of all the woman also died. At the resurrection [when they arise] whose wife will she be? For all seven had been married to her." Jesus said to them, "Are you not misled because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God? When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven. As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, [the] God of Isaac, and [the] God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly misled."
The cabinet in parliamentary gov’t
WHETHER parliamentary elections, along with scheduled local polls could be held next year if the campaign to amend the Constitution succeeds, will depend on leadership that must be found amid a variety of parties, none of which possess a legislative majority. As Lawrence C. Dodd, assistant professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin, wrote in his book "Coalitions in Parliamentary Government," that Cabinet durability depends on the coalitional status of the party or parties that form the Cabinet. This status, he said, is created by the fractionalization, instability, and polarization that characterize the parliamentary party system. Cabinets of minimum winning status are likely to endure; as they depart from minimum winning status, their durability should decrease.
Say no to aging
TO a considerable degree… we could decide not to age. We are forever in search of the fountain of youth, the cure for old age. But even though dozens of theories have been proposed, yet science has not produced a universal theory of aging. Throughout history, from the time of Hippocrates on, doctors have always drawn a distinction between disease and aging. Disease was a departure from health, a derailing from the normal track of life. Aging, on the other hand, was the natural course of events. Physicians attempted to treat the former and accept the latter. Unfortunately, some 10-20 percent of hospitalizations for seniors are the result of drug side effects.
Our environmental ‘warriors’
THERE is no better way of celebrating Environment Month than remembering the pioneering efforts of local environmental advocates. I am sure we can think of hundreds of individuals whose lives have been dedicated to improving the quality of our air, water, soil, and other life resources, but for a start, let me mention a few.
‘We’d be happy to get a wage increase from both sides’
CLASSES have opened "smoothly’’ nationwide despite the piling up of 17.8 million students in public schools.
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