Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda recognized the vital connection between history, food, and culture, as it influences homes, communities, and the entire nation.
“Food is pamana. It is our rich cultural heritage. Food sustains us, identifies us, and connects us as a nation,” said Legarda during the opening ceremony of Hapag Pamana in Antique on Sunday.
“The cultivation, preparation, and partaking of food are intricately interwoven with our cultural identity, our traditions, our values, and even our stewardship of nature,” she […]
The books we read shape our thinking, forge our beliefs, and teach us to imagine, beyond our lifetime, and sometimes for generations.
I am glad that we have initiatives like the Philippine Book Festival. I also would like to take this opportunity to share that the Philippines is the Guest of Honour country to the 2025 Frankfurter Buchmesse. It was in 2015, when Karina Bolasco approached me, and introduced the Frankfurt Book Fair. Immediately in 2016, we ensured adequate funding for […]
The books we read shape our thinking, forge our beliefs, and teach us to imagine, beyond our lifetime, and sometimes for generations.
I am glad that we have initiatives like the Philippine Book Festival. I also would like to take this opportunity to share that the Philippines is the Guest of Honour country to the 2025 Frankfurter Buchmesse. It was in 2015, when Karina Bolasco approached me, and introduced the Frankfurt Book Fair. Immediately in 2016, we ensured adequate funding for […]
My dearest fellow Filipinos, we are running out of Earth Days. If, on the first Earth Day, we set about to reach even a modicum of sustainability in 50 years, we would have failed. We are in year 54, and the planet has not shifted gears. I can still name a list of problems that existed in 1970 on the very first Earth Day, still challenging us, and today, we have hundreds more issues to grapple with.
I speak of a […]
Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda today supported the declaration of a state of calamity over her home province of Antique due to the worsening effects of the El Niño phenomenon.
Legarda pointed out that the approval will lead to the provision of vital resources and streamline assistance to the most affected, enabling the mobilization of emergency funds, implementation of critical interventions, and the provision of much-needed relief to Antiqueños.
“The declaration of a state of calamity underscores the urgent need for […]
