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Shortchanging our children

by Boo Chanco - November 22, 2024 - 12:00am

The State, according to our Constitution, shall protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels, and shall take appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all.

A nightmare

by Boo Chanco - November 20, 2024 - 12:00am

It would be totally understandable if Agriculture Secretary Francis Tiu Laurel Jr. is having nightmares wondering whatever made him agree to take on a mission impossible in Philippine agriculture.

Asia pivot: This time with feeling!

by Boo Chanco - November 18, 2024 - 12:00am

Barack Obama’s Asia pivot was a dud, as America was too preoccupied with Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern hotspots. That gave China time to build its military capabilities and its alliances with nations...

Privatize Pagcor right away

by Boo Chanco - November 15, 2024 - 12:00am

A few weeks ago, PAGCOR Chairman Al Tengco told me that BBM is determined to privatize PAGCOR and has already started the ball rolling to get this done. But Al said that the PAGCOR Charter has to be amended by Congress...

Missing the boat again

by Boo Chanco - November 13, 2024 - 12:00am

As soon as it was certain that Trump had won the elections, business news media started publishing a lot of stories about worried investors in China-based manufacturing facilities as well as US marketing companies...

Gut issues

by Boo Chanco - November 11, 2024 - 12:00am

In the end, American voters, like voters everywhere, voted based on their fears and their anger.

Explanation required

by Boo Chanco - November 8, 2024 - 12:00am

Public officials, elected or appointed, have the obligation to properly explain how they are spending the people’s money.

Headless chickens

by Boo Chanco - November 6, 2024 - 12:00am

BBM said the government’s response to the victims of Severe Tropical Storm Kristine was not enough. “It’s never enough. I wish we could do more…” He went on to say that the rainfall...

America for white Americans!

by Boo Chanco - November 4, 2024 - 12:00am

Americans voting for their next president is the most important event today.

NAIA as the Philippines

by Boo Chanco - November 1, 2024 - 12:00am

It is a long weekend again and people are trooping to NAIA for flights to home provinces or vacation spots. This means the agony people usually endure at NAIA will double or triple.

Is democracy in peril?

by Boo Chanco - October 30, 2024 - 12:00am

In less than a week, the United States will hold its presidential election, possibly one of the most consequential in its history.

Privatizing Pagcor

by Boo Chanco - October 28, 2024 - 12:00am

There is something very anomalous about PAGCOR that no administration has cared to fix. It is both a regulator and a participant in the business it regulates.

Cleaning up Duterte’s Chinese mess

by Boo Chanco - October 25, 2024 - 12:00am

Recent law enforcement raids have revealed that Duterte created a Chinese problem beyond the West Philippine Sea.

Left behind in ASEAN

by Boo Chanco - October 23, 2024 - 12:00am

“We never overtook you,” my Thai friend once told me, when I told her how far the Philippines has been left behind by Thailand, Malaysia and perhaps even Vietnam. “Your neighbors did not overtake...

Unprecedented water stress

by Boo Chanco - October 21, 2024 - 12:00am

As if the problems arising from wars and pandemics are not worrisome enough, we now have to live with the growing fear that the world is also running out of water.

Political noise?

by Boo Chanco - October 18, 2024 - 12:00am

Over the past few weeks, the House quad comm hearings have taken the nature of a Netflix miniseries.

Condo living

by Boo Chanco - October 16, 2024 - 12:00am

The daily newsletter I get from a stock market analyst reported that “According to Leechiu Property Consultants, there is now an oversupply of 29 months’ worth of condominium units in Metro Manila.&...

They’re wasting our borrowed money

by Boo Chanco - October 14, 2024 - 12:00am

When Finance Secretary Ralph Recto was still the House deputy speaker, he said the proposed 2024 national budget of P5.767 trillion would translate to an average daily spending of P15.8 billion, of which only P11.7...

The Pinoy middle class

by Boo Chanco - October 11, 2024 - 12:00am

The circus has come to town.

Skills needed not diploma

by Boo Chanco - October 9, 2024 - 12:00am

I was reading a thread on X a few days ago by a corporate CEO in Silicon Valley on what he is looking for in making new hires.

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