At the end of a three-day summit held earlier this month, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) submitted to President Marcos a set of recommendations to improve the country’s electoral process and make it truly representative of the people’s will expressed through the ballot. The key recommendations include upgrading technology and implementing a hybrid voting process following the breakdown of thousands of automated vote counting machines (VCMs) in the 2022 national elections. Using modern technology would make the
Unlike the human COVID-19 pandemic that appears to be behind us, the pig pandemic is still raging and causing tight supplies of pork, leading to continued high prices. It has been nearly four years since the first outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) was reported in the Philippines. Before the ASF virus rampaged through our major swine-growing areas, pork prices had been steady at P190-P220 per kilo, since at least early 2018 (the earliest price data posted on the Department of Agriculture website). It escalated to P250-P280 by July 2020, P300-P320 by October 2020, and P370-P400 (reaching up to P450) by
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