SunStar April 28, 2021 THERE are two things I like regarding recent developments on the issue of community pantries. One is National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon issuing a gag order to Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade and Communications Secretary Lorraine Badoy of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). The other is seeing military personnel bringing trucks of goods to the now popular Maginhawa, Quezon City community pantry set up by former student activist Ana Patricia Non.
On the gagging of Parlade and Badoy, I say it was the best thing the government could do short of kicking out the two from NTF-ELCAC. The two are supposed to be spokespersons of a body with lofty goals. I say “lofty” because even the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. could not end the communist insurgency during his time as a strongman. Can the Duterte administration succeed where Marcos failed?
Lessons from the pandemic’s first wave
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April 27, 2021 01:48 IST
A paper by Health Dept. staff outlines the city’s response to the virus in 2020
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A paper by Health Dept. staff outlines the city’s response to the virus in 2020
It was a combination of interventions that slowed the transmission and resulted in the decline of cases, despite the lifting of movement restrictions, during the first wave of the pandemic in Chennai, a pre-print article published in
medRxiv by Jagadeesan M., et al, has argued.
Authored by Health Department staff at the Greater Chennai Corporation, along with scientists at the National Institute of Epidemiology, an ICMR institution, the paper documents the COVID-19 response by multiple players during 2020 in the southern Metropolis.
Students turned instructors: Talented trio to lead taekwondo lessons
19 Apr, 2021 12:57 AM
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Camille Pruckmuller, Yang Eunchang, Alex Kelly, Maui Oliver-Kuoa, and Lorraine Bainbridge at Koryo Taekwondo NZ. Photo / Paul Taylor
Camille Pruckmuller, Yang Eunchang, Alex Kelly, Maui Oliver-Kuoa, and Lorraine Bainbridge at Koryo Taekwondo NZ. Photo / Paul Taylor
Three special-needs taekwondo fanatics hope to bring the buzz of their sport to Hawke s Bay ahead of its Paralympics debut. Lorraine Bainbridge, Maui Kupa and Alex Kelly will front a weekly class at Hawke s Bay s Koryo Taekwondo centre, teaching attendees the virtues of the Korean martial art.
Koryo Taekwondo NZ owner Camille Pruckmuller said the trio shared a dream of running classes for others.
Lessons not learnt
April 18, 2021
We are not ready to learn lessons from our past mistakes and continue to repeat the same mistakes again and again expecting different results. And each time we get the same result.
What has been happening in the country for the last three days is a clear manifestation of this approach. The TLP is not doing something new or surprising. This has been its pattern of protest. From the November 2017 Faizabad sit-in to the current protests, the TLP used the same tactics time and again. They organised violent protests and sit-ins when the Supreme Court acquitted Aasia Bibi in a blasphemy case. At the time, no arrangement was made to deal with the highly charged crowds in different cities. Finally, action was taken against TLP leaders and activists and that too only after speeches made by TLP leaders and supporters that used harsh and abusive language against the judiciary and the military top brass.