Tita C. Valderama
Some of our public officials are taking seriously the July 15 memorandum of Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea to all government offices. The memorandum, which was kept for a few days from the media, conveys the directive of President Rodrigo Duterte “to refrain from addressing him as ‘His Excellency,’ and the Cabinet secretaries as ‘Honorable’ in official and internal communications.