Economist magazine health care writer Slavea Chankova in 2020 wrote an article about Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 – Aug 13, 1910) and her role in the nursing profession. The story focused on the world Health Organization’s plan to make 2020 as the year of...
We remember everyone who helped in making the San Pedro Cathedral what it is today. Luzon and Visayas were Christianized in the 15th century. The church reached Mindanao only in the 16th century when Spanish Jesuits landed in Zamboanga and created the first Mindanaoan Church....
The one (1) trillion food industry is looking for ways to make profits by creating new wonder health foods with novel proteins. Gen. Mills of Minnesota thinks it found a new super food called ALT, alternative proteins. It comes from pulses, a branch of a...
SWF is surplus money that accrues overtime mainly from a nation’s foreign reserves (dollars). The SWF’s purposes are: 1. Stabilize national budgets, 2. Create savings for the people, 3. Promote economic development. The monthly family expenses are: 1. Electricity, 2. Water, 3. Food, 4. Gasoline (for...
Very few know and understand exorcism. In 1973, William Blatty wrote a novel entitled The Exorcist which was a movie hit starring Linda Blair as the possessed child and Max Von Sydow as the exorcist. Author Blatty said his novel was based on an incident...
On March 2019, there were already news that there was a strange dangerous virus causing death in Wuhan China. The World Health Organization (WHO) and medical agencies of all nations failed to act at once. By January 2020 COVID was all over the world. The...
The business section of the March 1 issue Philippine Star had a news item entitled “Phil urged hasten airport upgrades.” It cited Malaysia’s Air Asia Chief Executive Request for the Phil. to hurry up the completion, remodeling and improving of all airports so that more...
The Social Weather Survey issued several reports about Filipinos’ religiosity that are interesting. A 4th quarter 2022 survey show that 7 out of 10 Filipino Catholics pray at least once a day. Daily praying of other religious are higher. Weekly religious service attendance by Catholics...
On March 7, 2023 the House of Representatives approved for final reading 8 bills which will go to Senate. When the senate approves them, they will be sent to the President. The 8 bills will become laws when the President signs them. One of the...
In 1935, Davao Congressman Romualdo Quimpo (immigrant from Kalibo Aklan) sponsored a bill creating the chartered City of Davao. On October 16, 1936 President Manuel Quezon signed Commonwealth Act No. 5 (meaning it was the fifth law made the first year of the commonwealth period...