Health. Wealth. Relationships.
Admin Note: This post is a copy from Commentary, By Hermilando D. Aberia, Philippine Daily Inquirer, First Posted 01:58:00 06/07/2008 In a reproductive health workshop for Filipino adolescents, the facilitator asked the young participants what they thought about, or how they would define, sex. The participants, in their teens and early 20s, almost covered the board with their…
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I do not follow showbiz in the same way that I’m not a fan of gatherings that aim to generate noise and merrymaking. I guess this is another way of saying I am not a social animal. There can be some exceptions, however. I like showbiz if it offers sports events, or if it contains…
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Like him or not, one thing I can say about Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte is his not being bound by convention. He allocates for himself freedom of thought. Except for those with deep and radical minds (recall Galileo who said Earth revolved around the sun when everybody else thought Sun circled the earth), or…
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Self-styled investigative journalist Manuel Mejorada complained that the Ilo-ilo Convention Center was overpriced. He also charged that Senate President Franklin Drilon, DPWH Secretary Rogelio Signson, DoT Secretary Ramon Jimenez, among others, should answer for the material injury they inflicted upon the people. But when the Philippine Senate, pushed by various sectors to probe one of…
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My son, Horasyo Roy, and his family, left Tacloban on November 15, 2013 after surviving Typhoon Yolanda (see story here) on 8 November 2013. One month after the devastation, on 8 December 2013, we are back in Tacloban. We share what we saw with the pictures below. Right after deplaning, sad images were in front…
ShareAmong the lessons that students of politics and economics may want to learn from the recent 16-day shutdown in the US (September 30 to October 16, 2013) is how a bicameral congress, or how the separation of branches of government, works. That might as well include a study on why a system like that sometimes…
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In a recent Procurement Workshop organized jointly by the German Technical Cooperation International Services (GTZ-IS) and the Department of Health (DoH) for 16 provincial governments implementing the European Commission-funded Health Sector Policy Support Program (HSPSP), the procurement issues that were highlighted in one of the sessions included those that pertain to non-compliance with the Procurement…
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