Most of the national and world news since 2020 have been depressing. What with COVID, wars, earthquakes, floods, bombing, corruption, and scandals. Let’s read worthwhile, stomach filling and relaxing items like: “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and...
I cannot decipher some of the weather reports because some words/phrases are too weird/mystical. These are some of my “guessterpretations” of the weather jargon. Southeasterly gusty winds = might rain Southwest monsoon is intensifying = might rain Intertropical convergence zone = might rain Cloudy Skies...
Before the May 9 election the CBCP issued a pastoral letter telling the faithful to be concerned for the welfare of the nation and to ask for accountability and transparency from political/government leaders. Our archdiocese created a political action group to help the faithful in...
Christianity has been in Luzon and Visayas for 500 years whereas it has been in Mindanao for about 200 years. However, the church existed only in the coastal towns of Northern Mindanao (Zamboanga, Cagayan, Butuan, Caraga). The southern part (5 Cotabato and 5 Davao provinces)...
Spain evangelized Luzon and Visayas when Urdaneta, Legaspi occupied Manila in the late 1500s. The mission work was uninterrupted for 500 years. The Jesuits were the first and only Mindanao missionaries beginning the middle of the 1600s. They pulled out two times; in the late...
For 375 years (1521-1896), Spain did not create a free public school system in our nation. Filling up the vacuum, the church opened parochial schools in parishes. The church and parochial schools were in the town poblacion and only children whose parents live in the...
I think the government made a mistake, when in 2016, it added grades 7 and 8 before students can enter high school. Five (5) very bad effects came out when grade 7 was opened in 2016. (1) Thousands of first year high school teachers, lost...
[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="35357,35358,35359"] We have been bombarded with election trivia, fake news and garbage since January 2022. We suffered from mental and visual indigestion. We drowned in TV, newspaper, cellphones and social media election garbage. This will be my last election notes until 2025. These were...
Some say the 1949 Presidential election was the worst ever. The 1950-51 Senate hearings about the 1949 election showed that in some Mindanao barrios, there were more voters than number of residents and that some registered voters did vote even when they had died before...
There are about 120 million Filipinos and around 67 million are registered voters. About 45% of these voters are above 18 years old but below 30. They belong to the youth vote. However, many more belonging to the youth vote are not registered voters for...