LuisTeodoro.com

The Congressional Committee on Education said it all in 1990: taking the most popular courses in Philippine universities and colleges does not guarantee the new graduate a job after school. Every year the graduates of the country’s numerous colleges and universities end up swelling the army of the unemployed, among other reasons, said EdCom, because the courses Filipinos take are not the courses the country needs.
»

To qualify as a democracy, the first critical requirement for any state is the consent of the governed, and the willingness—in fact the obligation—of those in government to heed their wishes. But you don’t get much of either from the Metro Manila Development Authority these days, thanks to the style of governance of its current chair.
»

As presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye said the other day, Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila, has a right to his opinions.

Like everyone else in this earthly paradise called the Philippines, the Cardinal had the right last week to urge President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to run in 2004. He also had the right to call on the Catholic faithful to mass at EDSA twice, in 1986 and 2001.
»

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has reaped a whirlwind of anger in the British Parliament as well as among ordinary Britons for lying about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD). But US President George W. Bush has managed to avoid the same fate and even retain his popularity among Americans.
»

What does the United States dislike—or fear—about the International Criminal Court (ICC) that drives it to sign bilateral agreements with other countries exempting its troops from prosecution in the ICC?
»

The rumor that an “EDSA 4” is in the works, though repeatedly denied by opposition spokesmen, just won’t go away.
»

Filipinos love to hand out awards, and like beauty contests (every town fiesta has one), cultural, political, social and professional awards are as perennial as grass in this country of our sorrows.
»