“Our people’s health should come first, but at the same time, we also need to protect the welfare of our healthcare workers. This is the first step towards ensuring that our health care system is able to keep up with the challenges of this global pandemic,” three-term Senator, now Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda said amid reports of mass resignation of healthcare workers.
The health crisis caused by the COVID-19 has placed our healthcare system under immense pressure and challenged its capacity […]
Allow me to start with a couple of questions:
What if we were truly a hive mind, collectively building an economy that is so well matched to our environment, our climate, our culture and our needs?
What if we were not anchored on all the known parameters of success and economic indicators and had a chance to have a post-pandemic economy that is so well matched that we will just sail through our recovery?
Greetings to everyone here who are all positive […]
Three-term Senator, now Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, urged the Department of Health (DOH) to be transparent and clarify the findings highlighted by the Commission on Audit’s (COA) 2020 consolidated annual report on the deficiencies in handling the 2020 budget allocated to the Department that the state auditors reported as a significant contributor to the challenges encountered in the country’s pandemic response.
“The people deserve a clear and detailed explanation from the Department of Health. We cannot allow government funding to remain […]
House Deputy Speaker and Antique Representative Loren Legarda said that the mobilization of climate finance for the Philippines and other developing nations has become even more urgent to support the adaptation of vulnerable populations to more frequent, severe, and irreversible climate impacts. Legarda, a three-term Senator who authored the country’s Climate Change Act, made the statement in light of the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which made strong projections that global warming may exceed 1.5°C […]
In the grim novels kids these days like to read, they would often refer to a time during which humanity had a chance to turn things around. A chance to prevent the catastrophe. The threat in these books are no longer nuclear war or some technology that would obliterate half the population.
It is climate change. And we have come to a point at which we have to say this — you are either for us or against us.
