Opinion

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD The 2025 national budget is a subject of a lot of brickbats from so many critics including a former Senate President, and former government officials ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas Those years are election years. Politicians will need tons and tons of money. The national budget reflects this. In no time it will be signed ...

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas There are many things to look forward to this month alone. For students, the much-needed vacation. For employees their 13th month pay. The drinks to ...

By Estanislao Albano, Jr. Without our private schools, the country would do even worse in international student assessments as public schools consistently miss the average score while private schools exceed ...

By Anthony A. Araos There should an accomplished local official knock if not at the door or the House of Representatives through which Congress infuses more funds for vital initiatives ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas Leave the science people to their devises and they will come up with something great. Just be supportive but remain in the background. Interference would ...

By Jan Vicente  B. Pekas Too much of tranquility can drive anyone mad. But in between hectic moments, these boring days are just what anyone needs. Instead of worrying about ...

By Anthony A. Araos Former Baguio City congressman and mayor Mauricio Domogan is positioning the cities inhabitants to be beneficiaries of a master-planned development agenda in the 20th Congress. “I ...

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD I was toying with another topic to write for this piece but when I started, I was a bit startled when I saw what came ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas The day was planned. First destination was the Baguio City Justice Hall for court clearances. It would just be going up and down the stairs ...

By Estanislao Albano, Jr. Recently, the schools division superintendents (SDS) of Makati City, Dagupan City, City of Malolos, Batangas and Cabuyao City defied the unwritten mass promotion policy of the ...

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas A thrilling story requires excitement before the story ends. That seems to be the case whenever December rolls around. Students have exams and workers have ...

By Anthony A. Araos People make choices. Today, Filipinos continue to make a choice or two in their daily lives. In fact, right after waking up in the morning choices ...

By Estanislao C. Albano Jr. The ruinous effect of the mass promotion practice of the Department of Education (DepEd) on reading literacy is progressive. We had zero non-reader incidence before ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas There was a breakfast reunion I was supposed to attend at Pilando Center along Magsaysay Ave. but it turned out we did not communicate well ...

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD Summer capital. Am not referring to Baguio city or any part of Cordillera. I was surprised to see the two words together boldly announced in ...

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas The motivation at this point ought to be the holidays. Everyone is starting to get tired. And a lot like myself were already tired since ...

By Anthony A. Araos I’m happy to explain the reasons behind the hardships of folks in Ifugao at length for they are the rare reason why some generous lawmakers in ...

By Hyna C. Banitak Social media platforms and developing technology help teachers and students discover many useful language resources. These include different English content that can assist students in their ...

by Levi-Ruth T. Pokling “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” - Albert Einstein Being a teacher is indeed the noblest profession ...