2024-04-28 01:11
CLINICAL TRIALS IN THE PHILIPPINES
I am looking for an expert who could help me understand how clinical trials are being conducted in the Philippines, or how they ought to be conducted. I… Read More
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Postings of "No Holds Barred", the weekly column of Ike Señeres syndicated in 30 community newspapers in the Philippines.
2024-04-27 01:23
LOCALIZING FIRE PROTECTION
I think that the Philippines might be one of the few countries in the world wherein the fire services are nationalized or federalized, instead of being localized… Read More
2024-04-26 02:08
STUNTING AND MALNUTRITION
Obviously, there is a symbiotic relationship between stunting and malnutrition. To be clear, malnutrition does not necessarily result in stunting. In theory, stun… Read More
2024-04-24 23:08
SOLID LINES AND TRAFFIC RULES
What could be the reason why drivers do not obey traffic rules? Is it because they are ignorant of these rules? Or is it because they simply choose to ignore… Read More
2024-04-24 02:15
HAZARD MAPPING FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS
Many local government units (LGUs) already have geographic information systems (GIS) installed, but it seems that most of them are not maximizing… Read More
2024-04-23 03:35
THE ROOTS OF CORRUPTION
It is generally known that about one third of the national budget is eaten up by graft and corruption, and that does not even include the local budgets of LGUs. Wha… Read More
2024-04-22 02:01
INCENTIVES FOR HERITAGE RESTORATION
Construction and project development is a business, and no one will invest any money in it unless there is an assured return of investment. It is as simpl… Read More
2024-04-21 02:01
OVERKILL CONSUMER PACKAGING
Who has the jurisdiction over the use of non-biodegradable materials in consumer packaging? Is it the DENR, or is it the DTI? Or is it neither? I know that there… Read More
2024-04-20 02:15
NATIONAL MANGROVE MAP
Why in the world would Indonesia create a National Mangrove Map (NMM) and why in the world is the Philippines not creating its own? The Indonesian NMM was created by t… Read More
2024-04-19 01:33
GEOSPATIAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT
The good news is, PHIVOLCS has already started the Geospatial Information Management Project for Hazards and Risk Assessment in the Philippines, also known as… Read More
2024-04-18 01:59
IS GRAFT AND CORRUPTION A SIN?
I wonder why there is so much graft and corruption in our country, despite the fact that we are claiming to be a Christian country. Jokingly, I have often sai… Read More
2024-04-17 01:35
POLICE INTEGRITY, ANYONE?
If you have lost all hope that integrity could ever become a strong point of the PNP again, think again because there is now a reason to believe why it would happe… Read More
2024-04-16 01:12
REVIVING AN ENDANGERED LANGUAGE
Butuanon or “Binutuanon” is the native language spoken in Butuan City and in some neighboring towns. Legend has it that once upon a time, three d… Read More
2024-04-15 02:01
SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION
Mayor Benjamin Magalong of Baguio City recently posted a video online, where he told a story about what happened when he spoke to an audience of mayors during a conferen… Read More
2024-04-14 01:58
CORAL REEF PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION
We may not be able to eat the sea corals, but we can eat the fish and other marine life that are able to survive because of their dependence on these… Read More
2024-04-13 02:15
QUIAPO HERITAGE ZONE ADVOCACY
Just when I thought that local heritage groups have either weakened or have withered out, I was very happy to hear that a coalition of heritage home owners, he… Read More
2024-04-12 02:38
REPORTING OF EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION
After a recent earthquake in Northern Mindanao, I received a forwarded message in my Viber app, notifying me that there was an earthquake down south. Tha… Read More
2024-04-11 01:37
LET’S DO CHARACTER CHANGE FIRST
I do not know how you are looking at ways to solve our country’s political and economic problems, but I do not think that some defects in our Con… Read More
2024-04-10 01:04
STOPPING ONLINE SEX TRAFFICKING
By definition, sex trafficking is merely a subset of human trafficking. Although human trafficking is now the popularly used terminology, it is actually the… Read More
2024-04-09 01:57
GEARING UP AGAINST CYBERCRIME
The bad news is, incidents of cybercrime are increasing, and the cybercriminals are seemingly getting bolder and smarter. The good news is, the government is v… Read More
2024-04-08 01:47
JUST ANOTHER WAY TO PAY YOUR TAXES
If you pay your taxes in the usual manner, the money will go directly to the National Treasury and from there, the Congress will decide how and where it w… Read More
2024-04-07 01:55
NOT SO HAPPY WITH HAPPY PLUS
Why is it that in this country, the rules always seem to favor big business and not the ordinary customers? Well, let me put that in the right context. Based on… Read More
2024-04-06 02:17
NO VIDEO, NO REFUND POLICY IS ILLEGAL
Long before online orders became part of our lives, we already had a problem with errant merchants making up their own “no return no exchange&rdq&hell…Read More
2024-04-05 02:17
GENETICALLY MODIFIED BANANAS
As far as I can remember, I have always been against using genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to produce food. That has always been my belief, because I did… Read More
2024-04-04 01:00
ADDICTION TO ELECTRONIC GADGETS
Microsoft Bing defines addiction to electronic gadgets as the “uncontrollable urge or impulse to continue using technology to the point that it starts… Read More
2024-04-03 02:05
QUESTIONING THE LEGAL AGE OF CONSENT
Republic Act 11846 has raised the age of consent in the Philippines from 12 to 16. The new law, signed about two years ago by former President Rodrigo D… Read More
2024-04-02 01:41
MINIMUM SIZE OF FISH CATCH ALLOWED
What are the laws that are in place to regulate the size of fish that could be legally caught? Are there such laws and what are they? It seems to me howev… Read More
2024-04-01 02:00
PATRONIZING FILIPINO MADE JEEPNEYS
I heard about imported hard-tail mackerel or round scad (galunggong) being sold in the local markets that are probably smuggled, and are probably from Chi… Read More
2024-03-31 02:46
USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
When I was an IT consultant at the Makati City Hall, we implemented a Geographic Information System (GIS) primarily for the purpose of computerizing the… Read More
2024-03-30 02:22
FREE ORGANIC FOOD TESTING AND CERTIFICATION
When I was working as a Commissioner of the Philippine Year 2000 Commission (Y2K), I was troubled by the fact that many companies were already cl… Read More
2024-03-29 07:02
TELEMEDICINE TO SOLVE THE SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS
Have you heard some people say that many Filipinos die without seeing a doctor? I did not believe that at first, but then I realized later on t… Read More
2024-03-28 02:29
TRUTH IN PRODUCT PACKAGING AND LABELING
There was a time in the recent past when the biggest challenge for marketing companies was to comply with the rules pertaining to “truth in adv… Read More
2024-03-27 02:20
SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF HUNGER
Sometimes we seem lost in the flurry of words, but it is clear enough to me that the term “involuntary hunger” is much more real than “percei… Read More
2024-03-26 02:01
WHY IMPORT COCONUT PRODUCTS?
Have you heard the funny jokes about selling refrigerators to Eskimos? How about that other joke about selling camels to Arabs? Do not laugh now, but will it so… Read More
2024-03-25 02:46
THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD PATRONIZE FILIPINO INVENTIONS
Yes, the government should patronize Filipino inventions. And not only that, it should set the example by taking the lead in buying the p… Read More
2024-03-24 01:14
ARE PHILIPPINE MONEY BILLS USING ABACA OR NOT?
Gemini AI (formerly Bard AI) says that Philippine money bills (bank notes) are using abaca fabrics, but the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)… Read More
2024-03-23 00:41
WILDLIFE RESCUE AND RETRIEVAL HOTLINES
How many people know that the Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) actually has a hotline for wildlife rescue and retrieval? It would be good for ever… Read More
2024-03-22 02:04
UNRESPONSVE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
Before the internet and mobile phones came along, we could only contact the government agencies using landlines. The problem with using landlines is that alm… Read More
2024-03-20 23:28
THE POLITICS OF RECYCLING
I am told that one of our local billionaires is earning more millions by simply collecting the recyclables from their numerous shopping malls all over the country… Read More
2024-03-20 01:54
THE GROWING ORGANIC FOOD MOVEMENT
I do not know how they are doing it in the United States, but over there, it is the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that certifies that the produce a… Read More
2024-03-19 00:51
LET’S REVIVE OUR MANGROVE FORESTS
While there are many reasons why we should revive our mangrove forests, there is only one reason why we are not doing it, and that is plain and simpl… Read More
2024-03-18 02:21
ARE POWER COMPANIES IGNORING THE LAWS?
To my surprise, I received a formal reply from the DOE in response to my column about requiring power companies to issue advanced notices to household… Read More
2024-03-17 02:53
LET’S BUILD A PROSUMER ECONOMY
A prosumer economy is an economy wherein the producers of goods and services are also the consumers of these goods and services. In other words, it is p… Read More
2024-03-16 00:41
LOCAL WILDLIFE PROTECTION
It could be argued that many of our LGUs could barely take care of their human populations, such that they may not have the interest at all to even care for the wi… Read More
2024-03-15 00:50
INDIGENT VERSUS NEEDY
When I was working as a Director of PCSO, I realized that there is not much of a difference between an indigent person and a needy person, and as a matter of fact, the… Read More
2024-03-13 02:41
MAKING HOLLOW BLOCKS FROM CRUSHED GLASS BOTTLES
“From sand to sand” could be another version of “from dust to dust”. No, I am not talking about life after death, but… Read More
2024-03-12 02:15
JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERS
In theory, jails are for minor offenders with short sentences, and prisons are for major offenders with long sentences. Jails are usually run by local government… Read More
2024-03-11 02:44
BANNING HARMFUL INSECTICIDES AND HERBICIDES
It is very clear that the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) under the DENR has direct authority over the control, importation and distribution… Read More
2024-03-10 02:54
SELF-RELIANCE IN FARM MACHINES
Mr. Ramon Uy, Sr. of Bacolod City believes that we Filipinos could become self-reliant in making and maintaining our own farm machineries and equipment, and I… Read More
2024-03-09 02:17
MORE DRUG TESTS AND PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATIONS
The present leadership of the PNP should be commended for removing various offenders from the service. The moves might seem drastic, but I am sure… Read More
2024-03-08 02:43
GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE FOR COMPOSTING PROJECTS
Mr. Ramon Uy, Sr. of Bacolod City told me that the government, through the Bureau of Soil and Water Management (BSWM), an agency under the Depar… Read More
2024-03-07 02:23
RECYCLING, COMPOSTING AND GARDENING
Recycling, composting and gardening are all parts of the same value chain that all communities should “operationalize” everywhere, all the tim… Read More
2024-03-06 02:13
Perhaps not everyone of us would really care, but I know that there are many patriotic Filipinos who would really want to know the countries of origins of the products that they are buying… Read More
2024-03-05 01:47
Why did Mahatma Gandhi spin his own cotton fabrics? The answer to that might appear to be shallow, but there are actually very deep reasons behind his actions. Firstly, Gandhi was advocating… Read More
2024-03-04 01:42
Creating new value added is the key to building a bigger and stronger economy. Not unless we create our own new value added as a nation, we will always remain as a trading economy, meaning t… Read More
2024-03-03 02:32
It is really a sad reality that many government people from all branches are not accessible online, despite the billions of people that have been spent for the internet infrastructure, and d… Read More
2024-03-02 00:55
After 30 years of existence, it seems to me that the EU has done more than the ASEAN has, after the latter’s 56 years of existence. Perhaps that is the way the European psyche works, t… Read More
2024-03-01 01:28
I do not know how many attorneys the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) has, but I am sure that the supply is always short of the demand. Right now, the remedy to the shortage is for a jud… Read More
2024-02-28 23:53
Since we are signatories to the diplomatic and consular conventions, we have to conform to the protocols and agreements of those two conventions. Otherwise, it would seem that we are behavin… Read More
2024-02-28 01:48
What used to be known as the Parks and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) has been renamed as the Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB), but it has been retained as an agency under the DENR. I think that… Read More
2024-02-27 01:54
The good news is, the Philippines has already established a Philippine Genome Center (PGC). The bad news is, if we can call it that, it is a relatively small research facility under the Univ… Read More
2024-02-25 23:41
According to Bard AI, the extended continental shelf (ECS) refers to the portion of the continental shelf that extends beyond the 200 nautical miles exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of a coasta… Read More
2024-02-25 03:36
To buy or to build. That is the classic question in technology management. Before asking that question however, the data host entity which could either be a government agency or a private co… Read More
2024-02-24 02:47
There is supposed to be a law that requires manufacturers and importers to place distributor information in all their retail packaging, but it seems that too many companies are getting away… Read More
2024-02-23 01:59
When I designed the original concept for the 8888 system, I envisioned it to be a 24x7 customer relations management (CRM) service not only for the Office of the President (OP), but also for… Read More
2024-02-22 02:16
Internal conflicts of interests within government agencies does not seem to be recognized as a problem yet, that is why I have decided to write about it, to get the ball rolling, so to speak… Read More
2024-02-21 01:59
As stated in the charter of the PNP, it is supposed to be national in scope, and civilian in character. I think that it has already accomplished the first part, but it still has to do a lot… Read More
2024-02-20 02:40
I am kick starting an Innocence Project in the Philippines, with the goal of freeing those who have been wrongly convicted. This is actually not a new idea, this was probably started in the… Read More
2024-02-19 02:15
I have already written about water safety for many times, but I will not stop doing it, and I will keep doing it, because water security is very important to us. Water security is part of fo… Read More
2024-02-18 02:18
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, bioengineered food is defined as food that “contains detectable genetic material that has been modified through certain lab techniques… Read More
2024-02-17 03:32
According to Wikipedia, “In criminology, the broken windows theory states that visible signs of crime, antisocial behavior, and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourag… Read More
2024-02-16 02:23
According to Microsoft Bing, “The National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009 is a Philippine law that aims to protect and conserve the country’s cultural heritage . The law created t… Read More
2024-02-15 01:48
We hear so much about “jeepney consolidation” but I think that instead of focusing on that, we should focus on “cooperative formation”, and by that, I mean the format… Read More
2024-02-14 02:21
There is a big difference between spams and scams. There is really no hard and fast definition, but I would liken spams to a wrongdoing, and scams to a sin. Another way to define it is to sa… Read More
2024-02-13 01:28
There is no way around it, because for sure, lapses in water security could lead to problems in food security. Of course, it is true that water is life, but water is also necessary to produc… Read More
2024-02-12 02:08
Many years ago, the government bought an imported traffic control and management system, hoping perhaps that it could provide magical solutions to the problem of slow traffic flows in Metro… Read More
2024-02-11 02:19
A few Filipino movies have made it to the Netflix movie streaming platform. I have seen most of them, and I would say that they are world class, meaning that they are as good as any other mo… Read More
2024-02-10 02:31
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is a civilian law enforcement agency that is attached to the Department of Transportation (DOTr). It is tasked with (1) enforcing laws within Philippine wate… Read More
2024-02-09 02:57
I prefer not to point fingers and throw blame in the midst of a national problem, but there is something that I want to clarify first of all, before we proceed with the discussion of this to… Read More
2024-02-08 04:00
Desperate times call for new ideas, some of which might sound stupid or ridiculous. As there seems to be no solution to the problem of what to do with plastic waste, I am proposing this new… Read More
2024-02-07 03:05
Maintaining a Feed-in- Tariff (FIT) program is a good idea, even if the system has some weak points as of now. The main idea behind FIT is to encourage the development of more energy through… Read More
2024-02-05 23:56
The recent incident involving a Starbucks store deciding on their own about what discounts to give to senior citizens is a wake-up call. I am sure that it is not the only Starbucks that is p… Read More
2024-02-05 02:26
www.legaldictionary.net defines cybercrime as “any criminal activity that entails the use of a computer system, computer technology, or the internet”. As someone who is familiar… Read More
2024-02-04 03:29
As viruses and bacteria become more complex and more sophisticated, there is now a need for more advanced laser powered microscopes and supercomputers, and there are no other ways around tha… Read More
2024-02-03 04:18
As the collective owner of one of the biggest transportation fleets in the country, the government should take the lead in using biofuels in all of their vehicles. And I do not just mean the… Read More
2024-02-02 02:22
As I understand it, the DENR has jurisdiction over mangrove trees, and not the DA. That is probably due to their understanding that mangroves do not produce fruits and are therefore not part… Read More
2024-02-01 02:20
The good news is, the BFAR is somehow gaining ground in the battle against invasive species. The bad news is, the fight seems to be focused only in Laguna de Bay, and there are no key perfor… Read More
2024-01-31 02:24
Aside from the United States and the Russian Federation, two other countries, namely China and India have reached the surface of the moon by way of lunar vehicles. Now, Japan is also plannin… Read More
2024-01-30 02:23
Graft and corruption are two separate human behavior and we should not confuse these two with each other. As it is supposed to be, these two are supposed to have a cause and effect, because… Read More
2024-01-29 02:28
We are supposed to have “Ambisyon 2040” and the “Medium Term Philippine Development Plan” (MTPDP) for 2023 to 2028 as two separate documents that were officially adap… Read More
2024-01-28 03:32
I have already written about invasive marine species, but I was surprised to find out that there are also invasive plant species. In the case of invasive marine species, it is clearly the BF… Read More
2024-01-27 01:14
The difference between a dog pound and an animal rescue center is equal to the difference between a jail and a hospital. While the reason for the difference might appear to be legal, in real… Read More
2024-01-26 01:25
A bill has been filed in the House of Representatives (HOR), proposing some major revisions to the Indigenous People’s Republic Act, otherwise known as the IPRA Law. Many leaders in th… Read More
2024-01-24 23:23
Filipino inventor William Chua is suggesting that we bring back bottle deposits. He suggested that idea to me after observing that the junk shops are not buying used glass and plastic bottle… Read More
2024-01-24 02:42
Consider yourself lucky if you live in a city or musicality that has a free ambulance service for public use. If not, you could be facing a great threat to your health safety everyday where… Read More
2024-01-23 03:21
Every now and then, I get calls from friends and friends of friends, and even from complete strangers who ask for my help in getting supplies of human blood that are needed for surgeries. Th… Read More
2024-01-22 02:09
It’s a good idea to require manufacturers and distributors to put markings on their products, so that one way plastic packages could become returnable and refundable. Aside from that… Read More
2024-01-21 06:30
I know for a fact that manufacturers and distributors are supposed to place the countries of origin, the names of manufacturers and their company’s contact information in their retail… Read More
2024-01-20 06:57
Could it be said that corruption in government is rampant because morality is not so prevalent among public officials? But how can that be? Is it not that most if not all of these officials… Read More
2024-01-19 05:49
It may just be a technicality, but the problem in the Metro Manila is not “traffic” as we know it, because there will always be “traffic” even if there is only one ve… Read More
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