Filipino Pensioner by Horace Templo
End-of-year report
Once more it’s December, the month of Christmas and New Year’s Eve and the most appropriate time to review our...
Freedom to choose
Four months and 25 days or a total of 148 days have passed since President Digong Duterte reluctantly occupied Malacañang...
The need to travel abroad
Sadly, many desperate Filipinos now have to travel abroad just to work as domestic helpers or laborers in countries more...
Countdowns
After this year’s almost uneventful Undas, we immediately started our countdown to Christmas 2016, which is turning out to be...
Another pension deadlock
A good proportion of our millennials now spend their days before, during and after Undas traveling as local tourists to...
Pensions made in USA and Japan
It’s evident that the pension systems of our uniformed personnel and civil servants are legacies to us of our American...
Change is coming–eventually
We hoped—as we were constantly promised during the campaign period—that real change would come immediately if then-Mayor Digong Duterte would...
Education, excellence and enjoyment
Treasuring our long-standing friendship with Asia’s first grandmaster Eugene Torre, our small group of chess aficionados whose ages now exceed...
Senator Miriam’s unfinished pension work
“Miriam, sleep in peace but pray for us” were the simple loving words that retired Bishop Teodoro Bacani Jr. used...
Discarding our ‘Nato’ policy
Architect Jun Palafox was exaggerating in jest when he disclosed that he had “1,000 recommendations” on how to ease our...
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