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The Department of Science and Technology’s Western Visayas office announced last week that the 2026 AI Fest will run Aug. 3-5 with nine sub-events, more than double the inaugural edition. That is real progress. DOST-6 Regional Director Rowen Gelonga is also right to argue that the country’s first regional AI Governance and Ethics Policy, drafted
With all the wayward drama at the Philippine Senate this past week and a half, most people will likely focus on the personalities behind the series of unfortunate events. What will be missed, I think, is the fact that all these occurred against the backdrop of the Upper Chamber’s flawed
The strangest thing about last week’s Senate hullabaloo was not even the gunshots. Filipinos are no strangers to noisy politics and emotional press briefings. Still, what disturbed many people last week was not just the Senate shooting narrative itself, but the sense that the public was being asked to doubt its
What a crazy couple of days. Last Wednesday’s big, chaotic mess left me with a lot of questions and raised eyebrows. When he resurfaced, Bato dela Rosa admitted that he came to the Senate at the instance of Alan Peter Cayetano in order for his allies to win as the House majority.
“Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.” – William Penn MOST of us may not have noticed it, but the saying that God’s hands work in mysterious ways, or God works in mysterious ways, was manifested in brutal fashion in the recent chaos in the
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WHENEVER we find ourselves in some helpless situation due to a persistent weakness—like the weakness of the flesh—or to some challenges and trials that are increasingly getting heavier each day, or to some misfortune that we find impossible to bear, then we should just insist on praying and begging our Lord
