Jun 7, 2021, Raizza Bello MANILA, Philippines People ‘have to eventually confront that fear [of vaccines] and weigh the consequences of non-vaccination versus the risk of getting COVID,’ says public health practitioner and former health secretary Manuel Dayrit Almost four months into the Philippines’ mass vaccination program, the country has administered, as of May 30,…
INQUIRER.net / 12:15 PM June 07, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The dwindling power supply and the possible increase in power rates, compounded by the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic could spell a “triple whammy” to disadvantaged Filipinos, Senator Grace Poe said Monday. “The looming power rate increase coupled with the rotational brownouts in the…
Jun 6, 2021, Rappler.com MANILA, Philippines The Student Aid Network says the subsidy, if granted, could be used for gadgets, tuition, and other fees and needs of students More than a year since schools shifted to distance learning, a network led by students and youth groups across the country called for the distribution of at…
By Pia Regalado for Reportr, Esquire Philippines Online From your neighborhood Starbucks to the Senate session hall, Tuesday’s rotating brownouts in Luzon spared no one and the operator of the power grid, NGCP, has been serving advance warnings in the last few days. For June 1 alone, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines placed…
Published June 6, 2021, ani by Raymund Antonio Vice President Leni Robredo’s recent remark that she is still open to run as president next year is a “welcome development,” opposition coalition 1Sambayan said on Sunday, June 6. As this developed, 1Sambayan convenor and lawyer Howard Calleja said during an interview on DZMM TeleRadyo that the…
Reportr. World, Esquire Philippines, May 31, 2021, The Pro-Trump protester was swept to jail. The pro-Trump protester who wielded a walis tambo (broom) during the U.S. Capitol siege on Jan. 6 has been arrested, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Federal agents in Norfolk, Virginia sent Kene Brian Lazo to jail on Friday, May 28, four months after being…
New jargon for your COVID dictionary. By Arianne Merez For Reportr, Esquire Philippines, May 28, 2021 In the continuously evolving COVID-19 pandemic fight (and dictionary), authorities have introduced a new term to Filipinos: population protection. Forget herd immunity as the yearend goal. The government is now eyeing population protection against COVID-19 before the end of…
Fifty years ago, six students from Mindanao State University successfully hijacked a plane and brought it to China. By Justin Umali | May 11, 2021, Esquire Philippines online These days, it would be hard to believe that Fructuoso Chua, Jr. ever led an exciting life. A first glance shows nothing more than an…