Monthly Archives: August 2010

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) leadership and public school teachers are headed on a collision course over a move to add two years to the basic education curriculum.

MANILA, Philippines – He may be a neophyte in government, but this spokesman is definite and proud of one thing – that he will not “do a Bunye” and defend a public lie.

Today, more than 85 percent of corporations are engaging in some type of wellness programming. Can work be good for you? An increasing number of employers recognize that promoting their employees’ health has great benefits for them, including decreased absenteeism and lower employee health care costs.

Communist rebels have set on fire to five container vans of a banana plantation in Compostela Valley province, the military said yesterday.

The petitioners of the controversial sex education program of the Department of Education (DepEd) withdrew their suit against its inclusion in the local education system to allow Education Secretary Armin Luistro evaluate the program and take appropriate actions.

Flag-carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) yesterday said it had to cancel several domestic and international flights after some of its pilots quit without giving enough notice.

[Since last Sunday, the column of Dr. Felizardo Francisco, Director, CHED, has come out on Sunday instead of Friday.] [This is the last, the fourth, installment of the speech I delivered on “the Role of CHED in Setting Global Standards for Higher Education in the Philippines” during the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT)…

BUILDING on the best-practice results of several recent cooperation programs, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the European Union (EU), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and German Association for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) have got together to prepare a primer on how to strengthen cooperation among local government units in delivering essential services,…

The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) together with the Science City of Muñoz in Nueva Ecija had committed to intensify rice conservation over the weekend. The commitment was made as a survey conducted by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology shows that each Filipino wastes three tablespoons of…

THE Manila Times has long advocated the abolition of the National Food Authority (NFA). We just could not see how the dual mandate of the agency—to be tasked with aiding farmers to be paid well for the palay (unhusked rice) they produce while at the same time be required to make sure the market price…

FOOD Security in staple cereals in times and places of natural or man-made calamity/emergency.

THE former head of the Arroyo Administration’s Presidential Management staff, Secretary Elena Bautista-Horn, has defended the regime she served from Aquino administration claims that the National Food Authority (NFA) allowed rice to rot in its warehouses. She said most of the rotting rice was received as donations from the United Nations World Food Programme.

Long berated in our editorials for profligate and questionable spending, the National Food Authority (NFA) suddenly grabbed the headlines when President Benigno Aquino 3rd, in his first State of the Nation Address last week, condemned the previous administration’s practice of importing rice in excessive amounts, resulting in a glut of the staple.

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MANILA, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has expressed its support for a new policy that makes Pag-IBIG membership a requisite for departing OFWs.