Not solely due to climate change
Moving the opening of classes from June to September stirred much excitement among students from grade school to college. The immediate thought was that, for the time being, this will protract the summer vacation,...
Thank You Generous Filipinos and foreigners of course!
It’s a little over a hundred days of Yolanda’s fury, a super typhoon that wrecked havoc to our communities in Leyte and Samar, that has caused some 6,000 lives lost; hundreds badly hurt and...
On feeding program budget
The move of the Senate to increase the Department of Education (DepEd) budget for school feeding from P3.97-billion to P7.58-billion is commendable enough but it could have ill-effects and disadvantages if the program implementation...
Thai princess in the city
TACLOBAN CITY- A real princess stepped inside a “reel” palace in the city for an hour and expressed her “amazement” on how the place remained well-maintained. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand, whose family is...
Who is in and out?
Three and a half months after the storm surge and hurricane-like wind of the traumatizing supertyphoon Yolanda have rendered thousands of families in 63 towns and 2 cities of Eastern Visayas homeless, hundreds of...