Sunday, September 14, 2025

Opinion of the Day

COMMENTARY: Shallow understanding of food security

LAST time around, I wrote about the pathetic state of Philippine agriculture, particularly rice farming, and hoped that the Department of Agriculture’s plan to...

Food-security emergency sums up pathetic state of agriculture

PATHETIC. This about sums up the state of Philippine agriculture—rice farming to be more precise. How else explain that we imported 4.68 million metric tons of...

Political patronage in health

I HAD thought that after Congress expanded and strengthened the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation and enacted the Universal Health Care Act (UHCA), political patronage...

Commentary: Hare-brained lawmakers and 12 tablets of paracetamol

WHAT do you call it when lawmakers do not understand and violate the law they wrote? For lack of a better word, let’s call it...

Commentary: Here we go again with SSS, GSIS, PhilHealth funds

THE National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) recently announced that funds from the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), Social Security System (SSS), and Philippine...
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