The House of Representatives committee on public order and safety must be commended for its approval last Tuesday of a substitute bill that would allocate P10 billion for fire protection modernization. Masbate Rep. Narciso Bravo, committee chair, said this was a “more realistic” allocation—a polite way of saying that the original allocation of P5 billion stipulated in House Bill No. 2546, or the Fire Protection Modernization Act of 2019, was much too little, considering that
Today is my mother’s birthday. She would have been 97. She died of a kidney ailment in 2000 at the age of 78. The other day, while standing in front of the small crypt that bore her remains, I tried to summon from memory the last time we talked. While
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