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Population and the pandemic revisited - will Covid-19 ever end?

Tuesday, 01 June 2021 08:34 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

YES! Covid-19 will end sometime, but not until Covid has exterminated hundreds of millions, maybe one-third to a half of the world's population - short of near-total annihilation of the human race. I hope this will not come to pass.…

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The senator/personal assistant — an anomaly (2)

Wednesday, 19 May 2021 08:52 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana

THIS article is a response to the feedback on my May 5 column from various social media platforms. I’ve chosen to highlight the retort of a friend, Jose “Boyet” Lim 3rd, a confidant to both President Duterte and Sen. Christopher…

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Labor’s lament — ‘ENDOterte’

Wednesday, 12 May 2021 09:08 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

FOR more than a century, May 1 has been celebrated as “Araw ng mga Manggagawa.” The first Philippine Labor Day celebration was in 1903, when Filipino workers protested against “American capitalism and imperialism” — a recurring theme that underpinned countless…

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The senator/personal assistant — an anomaly

Wednesday, 05 May 2021 10:55 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

PRESIDENTS are bestowed political powers by virtue of the legitimacy of their election. This makes President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (PRRD) the most powerful person in government. Those wrapped with the penumbra of power are suffused by it not so much…

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President’s men revisited — health czar kuno!

Wednesday, 28 April 2021 07:48 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

LAST week marked the anniversary of the arrival of the yearlong contagion that has so far killed 16,000 and infected almost a million Filipinos. Government has relied on the Philippine Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases…

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President’s men revisited — the spokesman

Wednesday, 21 April 2021 09:03 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

First of a seriesHE is back! Speculations were rife on Duterte’s whereabouts. Social media was bombarded with rumors of his flight to Singapore aboard the presidential G280 Gulfstream for an alleged minor surgical repair on his colostomy bag or for…

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Continuation of a regime by other means

Wednesday, 14 April 2021 03:38 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

UNDER normal circumstances, election fever sets in around this time of the year as a prelude to the campaign circus coming to town. But these are extraordinary times. Covid-19 cases are surging, people are dying and the economy is collapsing.…

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Covid-19 revisited — a year after

Wednesday, 07 April 2021 08:26 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

THE year 2020 could have been a year like any other. But it went fast and slowand slow: fleeting for the Covid-19 victims, especially for the families left behind; too fast for proper grieving; no closure; our departed’s presence lingering,…

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