With the Philippines still mightily struggling to overcome unprecedented health and economic challenges 18 months into the pandemic, logic dictates that more funds be allocated in the 2022 budget to pressing COVID-19 response programs. And yet here comes the Presidential Communications Operations Office proposing a P1.91-billion budget next year — 18 percent more than the P1.62 billion it got this year. Its rationale for the humongous budget request? To “continue to highlight the legacy of real
Reader, remember the quote attributed to Victor Hugo? “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” Actually, what he said was “One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.” Well, from the enthusiasm of your response, the LetWomenLead project is an idea whose time has come, or whose invasion cannot be resisted. Even with a couple of false starts, it has spread far and wide — with responses, aside from the Metro Manila area, coming from Zamboanga, Negros Occidental, Iloilo, Bulacan, Cebu, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and from the United States (Washington
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