TWO interesting news items appeared in my email inbox in the past couple of days to round out what has been a rather hectic month of April for the country and the world at large, and might be portents of some intriguing developments in the next couple of weeks or months.

The first, and less alarming of the two was an update from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on the progress of its Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) through April, which has a significant bearing on the Philippines as this country was one of the pilot countries for the program, and it will, or at least should, have a considerable effect on energy development here over the next several years.