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“There is a certain impatience in youth which is really nothing more than their energy eager to be put to use.”
The late President Ramon Magsaysay could have been channeling today’s youth when he shared these words six decades ago.
Young people are now looking at the challenges of the times in global terms. They are a force, going where their energies take them.
This has brought the brightest among them to a one-of-a-kind learning and development program for selected next generation social change leaders working in Asia.
From June 14 to 25, 2021, 33 outstanding young leaders from all over Asia gathered to learn from 11 Ramon Magsaysay Awardees in the Nextgen Leadership Program organized by the Ramon Magsaysay Transformative Leadership Institute.
Published July 3, 2021, 9:33 AM
More than a month after former Interior and local government secretary Jesse Robredo was laid to rest, then President Benigno Aquino III penned a personal letter to his widow, now Vice President Leni Robredo. He wrote that she and her children “were a source of strength” and assured them that his door would remain open for them.
President Benigno Aquino III looks at the Pasig River from his office in Malacañang for the last time on his final day as Philippine president on June 29, 2016. (Malacañang File Photo)
The letter was in response to the one sent by Robredo who thanked Aquino “for the many things (you) did for us during that most difficult time in our lives.”
Published June 29, 2021, 11:00 AM
(Published July 1, 2016, the day after former President Benigno S. Aquino III went home as private citizen to his home at Times Street. )
It was a moment not many have witnessed – the last few minutes before the country’s most powerful man turns into a private citizen. Yesterday, President Aquino came home to No. 25 Times Street, Quezon City, in his white Toyota Land Cruiser, and was welcomed by about 200 people – neighbors, supporters, former classmates and members of his Cabinet.
Former President Benigno S. Aquino III ended his term as President of the Philippines on June 30, 2016. (Manila Bulletin file photo)
Published April 8, 2021, 12:11 AM
In a move that deserves public commendation, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) barred the state-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) from passing on to consumers new universal charges (UC) for stranded debts (SD) and stranded contract costs (SCC).
The focal point of this decision are the beneficiaries of the Murang Kuryente Act (MKA) that was enacted to provide a safety net for those in the poor, marginalized and disadvantaged sectors.
According to projections made by Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chairperson of the Senate energy committee before the enactment of the new law in August 2020: “A family that consumes 200 kilowatt-hours per month can expect that there will be a P172 decrease in their electricity bill every month, equivalent to an additional three to four kilograms of rice per month.” This is because of the deduction of two universal charges from their electricity bills.