While the government ramped up COVID-19 vaccinations with a three-day national inoculation event last week and opened booster shots for fully-vaccinated adults on Dec. 3, the “last-mile” part of the process — issuing digital vaccine certificates to vaccinated citizens — seems to have been given little attention. Attesting to this neglect are the complaints about undue delays and erroneous entries in the VaxCertPH document that have been aired in the past weeks, mostly by Filipinos who
I always feel discomfort when I hear talk about the need for “voter education,” usually in the context of lamenting the nature of the candidates who tend to get the strongest support from the Filipino voting public. We hear terms like “bobotante” and “tangang masa” in such conversations, especially now as we again prepare to choose new leaders in 2022. There’s no denying that we’ve seen elected into office too many people with reputations for vote buying, thievery, plunder, immorality, and even murder; show business or sports personalities and other public celebrities with no known qualifications for governance; and even returning
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