The Bureau of the Treasury or BTr recently reported that the national government’s total outstanding debt reached P14.24 trillion as…
NDCP@60: Taking the lead in national security
The NDCP is the highest national security policy and strategy school in the country.
Corruption
This score, placing the country in the top one-third of the countries surveyed in terms of corruption, is not surprising
Legacy of sacrifice, service
His daughter, Atty. Erlinda A.I. Espiritu, the first woman graduate of Harvard Law School in the world, did not want her father to encounter the difficulty of traveling to and from the province at his age. She sacrificed and left her lucrative job in Manila and returned to Calapan to run the bank.
Reading and literacy
According to a World Bank report on learning poverty released last year, at least 90 percent of Filipino children aged 10 have difficulty reading and writing basic text
The risks we face
On 28 February, a motor tanker carrying 800,000 liters of industrial fuel oil sank in the waters of one of…
Strengthening teacher education
Since a school is only as good as its teachers, the future of a nation is to a very large extent dependent on the quality of its teachers
Economic prospects 2023
If one would ask what most of the Filipinos’ primary economic concern in 2022 was, it would most probably be…
Christmas wishes 2022
Four years ago, I wrote in this column an article entitled “Christmas Wishes 2018.” My wishes then were: The elimination…
The national strategy
The NDCP defines national strategy as the overall plan of employing all available resources to enhance national interests or national objectives