Month: February 2016
Elections 2016: Welcome back to Class!
BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO To be honest, I am a newbie in this erstwhile game called the Philippine elections. It is one thing to seek out and pledge one’s fidelity to strategic solutions. Yet it is quite another to be suspicious of almost any institutional procedures which largely define the life of the nation,…
SSS pension hike — it’s a class thing
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld\ I waited to hear the views of a friend, a former SSS top executive who sought a meeting with Rep. Neri Colmenares, original sponsor of the bill that seeks to raise the Social Security System (SSS) monthly pension for more than 2 million retirees by P2000. I wanted to…