SENATE Bill No. 1979 titled “Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Act,” which is authored by Sen. Risa Hontiveros, seeks to prevent teenage pregnancies. This is a laudable aim, but the bill has ...

What’s so difficult about resolving this dragging furor over the alleged blank items in the congressional bicameral report on Republic Act No. 12116, or the General Appropriations Act (GAA) of ...

Once, during class, a student addressed me as “Professor.” I told him, “You don’t need to address me (as) that.” He asked, “Why, sir? You are a teacher in the university.” I answered: “Not all ...

If everyone had to write a New Year’s resolution, my younger self would’ve recycled the same lies in my formal theme book over and over. I’d scribble: “My holiday season was happy” or “I hope for the ...