Not fully grasped
The people’s inability to fully understand the term used by weather experts partly explains the big number of casualties killed during the onslaught of typhoon Yolanda.
Storm surge is indeed rather vague and unfamiliar. People...
Political Positioning for 2016
Political winds have started to surge into our consciousness with the open declaration of Vice President Jejomar Binay to run for President in 2016. He is just a heartbeat away from the presidency. But...
The indispensability of the cross
THAT’S right. The cross, given our human condition, is absolutely necessary in our life here on earth. We cannot even be human, much less, Christian, without the cross. Without the cross, we think that...
Landless disaster survivors suffer most
RIGHTS Network, a network of non-governmental organizations in the country working closely with the peasant sector on the speedy and full implementation of the agrarian reform program, has documented that farming and fishing communities...
Heartwarming
DBM Secretary Florencio Abad has announced that government has already released P32.2billion as to finance government agencies tasked to undertake post disaster relief and reconstruction programs of the areas devastated by Yolanda. The National...