SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye In time for the National Women’s Month, the Ayala Enterprise Circle (AEC), in cooperation with BPI Business Banking, held an all-women entrepreneurs’ forum titled, “Leading Women Entrepreneurs in the Digital Economy.” A distinguished panel of women leaders came...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye The recent alarming upsurge of COVID-19 in the country, the very slow arrival of approved vaccines and the consequent delay in the implementation of the vaccination program have left many Filipinos clutching at straws in search of speedy relief. News reports indicate...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye I was a young boy studying at the Itaas Elementary School in Muntinlupa, when I first heard the concept of “ bayanihan ”. My social studies teacher used the classic image of neighbors coming together to carry somebody's nipa hut to another patch of farmland to...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Muntinlupa City which is turning 26 today will mark the milestone event with subdued ceremony where Mayor Jaime R. Fresnedi is expected to lay down plans for the recovery of the city. March 1, 1995, marked the day when President Fidel V. Ramos signed the city charter...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye For two consecutive weeks, Muntinlupa City held virtual town hall meetings to drum up participation in its forthcoming COVID vaccination program. Invited to the meetings with the theme “Bakunado, Protektado” were representatives of homeowners groups, religious...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye In a recent award ceremony, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) lauded four Ayala companies for leading the way in terms of corporate governance in the country. Ayala Land, Inc. (ALI) and Globe Telecom made it to...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Moving forward, the main challenge, aside from averting new COVID infections and ensuring proper vaccine administration, is “to ensure the re-orientation of our institutions towards sustained and inclusive economic growth.” This was the message of Jaime Augusto...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye During a special joint meeting last week, the boards of Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) and BPI Family Savings Bank (BFSB) unanimously agreed to set into motion the strategic union of the two banks. The merger, with BPI as the surviving entity, will take effect...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Polio-stricken Jay Argana Espeleta has been awarded twice as an Outstanding Employee in 2019, ( runner-up), and 2020 as the outstanding employee of the year. At age 5, Jay, a native of Muntinlupa, was afflicted with polio, which severely deformed his left leg and...
Ignacio R. Bunye SPEAKING OUT Banks have not been remiss in reminding clients to safeguard their personal information especially PINs and passwords. But somehow scammers are still able to dupe bank clients into revealing these sensitive info. One usual ploy is by sending an email or SMS notice...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Among all our heroes, Dr. Jose Rizal, whose martyrdom we commemorated five days ago, is without any doubt the most written about. But one can never get tired leafing through Rizaliana materials. There is always something new, something interesting to learn about him....
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye About this time every year, many of us try to recollect personal and family experiences during the year which is about to end. It is also now that we renew resolutions and express hope and wishes for the coming year. As has been our family tradition, our family, on my...
