Gabriel Christian J. Lacson

Strewn heavily across my feeds are reactions by my contemporaries on the recently-concluded United States presidential election after whose results and record youth voter participation they have expressed hope that their voices may be translated into votes and therefore into power come 2022.

As of 1:00 p.m. Philippine time, 5 November 2020, the winner of the 2020 United States Presidential election between incumbent Donald J. Trump of the Republican Party and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden of the Democratic Party remains undetermined.

Hitler rose to power on the outrageous premise, out of many, that the Jews were behind Germany’s shame and ruin during the aftermath of World War I.

What does a Head of Government do should people rate his administration and its handling of the pandemic so highly, to the tune of a ninety-one percent approval rating?

“A tragedy is nearly 3,000 people murdered one morning in New York. A tragedy is the mums and dads who never came home from work that day. A tragedy is people jumping from the towers after the planes hit.”

I had the privilege of listening a few days ago to a friend of mine, award-winning Mindanawon author Karlo Antonio Galay David, as he was talking about several important issues affecting the Philippines and his Mindanao.

Earlier this week, a substantial portion of a citizens group highly supportive of President Rodrigo Duterte met in western Luzon to announce their support for installing a “revolutionary government” over the Philippines to ensure that the Chief Executive keeps his promise of shifting to a federal system before the end of his term. The MRRD-NECC stated, too, that this proposed change should be to trigger a “cultural revolution”.

Recently, I was asked by my friend Joevel to write about my experiences in the Republic of Singapore, where I had the opportunity to visit in 2016 and in 2019. Upon her beckoning and mention of the subject, I quickly grabbed the opportunity to do so.

Last week, the President of the Republic of the Philippines delivered his penultimate State of the Nation Address, reporting to Congress and to the Filipino people the achievements, milestones, plans, and challenges faced by the republic under his administration.

Previously, this article tackled the realities and implications of an ageing farming sector especially to food security and sustainability.