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A tough but gentle maverick mayor

Davao City Mayor Digong Duterte—standing tall in the center of the five candidates—benefitted the most from that historic first presidential debate which was held...

Cory’s La Niña years of pension increases

The observance of the 30th Anniversary of the People Power Revolution of 1986 on Feb. 25 as a special non-working holiday is making us...

Skirting pension issues

The Social Security System was so popular in the 1980s to the point that it was used to bolster President Ferdinand Marcos’ candidacy against...

Those Japanese trips

Once very critical of foreign travels, President Benigno Aquino III would have flown at least 45 times to 24 countries by the time he...

An abandoned social contract

Weak and shallow is our understanding of social security if PNoy and the Social Security System have made us believe that the proposed P2,000...

The best for social security

That P2,000 pension increase proposal of Rep.  Neri Colmenares—which was  heartlessly vetoed by PNoy last Jan. 12—is turning out to be the best initiative...

Bright but amateurish

PNoy’s Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio “Jun” Aguinaldo Abaya is beyond doubt a certified bright boy who has hurdled with flying colors probably all the...

Losing the 4Ps

Presidents Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Benigno Aquino III should have never been allowed to implement non-statutory social welfare programs and spend huge amounts of public...

A dole from ILO 

That our government must assist workers who become victims of calamities shouldn’t be argued about anymore. It is the right thing to do. In fact,...

Traffic solutions from Davao

When Davao City Mayor Digong Duterte was asked in a nationwide radio interview how he would phase out our 15-year-old jeepneys, he replied without...

On my way to Sierra Madre

My trip from Heart Center, Matalino Street, Quezon City to Sierra Madre Cafe behind Edsa in Mandaluyong City last Friday, Dec. 4 at 2:30...

Pensioners are included, too!

Many among us senior citizens have already realized that we were never included in the group that was to be pursued as beneficiaries of...

You’re included, Boss!

“You are my Boss!” was what PNoy told us when he assumed the presidency and delivered his inaugural speech at the Quirino Grandstand on...

PNoy’s 5Ps 

The 3Ps or public-private partnerships is a program for building public infrastructures in which government agencies, without spending public funds, initiate projects with private...
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