SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye This is the title of the new book written by best-selling author Alex Lacson, and which was officially launched last August 31, 2020, during National Heroes’ Day. It is a gripping novel that takes a comprehensive and holistic view of the country’s present-day...
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SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Five months into self-quarantine, I now have more time to watch webinars which, pre-COVID, I would normally miss. Two very interesting ones were recently held to mark the 75 th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Philippines. Just to refresh: While...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye At Mount Samat, focal site of our yearly Araw ng Kagitingan, a relief celebrates the lone Filipino Medal of Honor awardee in the battle of Bataan. Sgt. Jose Calugas, a native of Iloilo, was a member of the Philippine Scout. Although Calugas had...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye The Ayala group recently scored two “firsts” in the history of the Philippine capital market with the listing of AREIT, Inc., in the Philippine Stock Exchange on August 13 and the BPI CARE Bonds on August 7 at the Philippine Dealing Exchange...
SPEAKING OUT Food security has long been a concern of Filipinos and much more so during the COVID-19 pandemic. The quarantine restrictions have made access to food and the market more difficult. The small farmers’ produce rot because there is no one to deliver them to the market....
SPEAKING OUT Do you know that for as low as the price of a second-hand cellphone, you can now own a piece of three “Class A” buildings in Makati’s business district? I am not kidding. And these buildings are Ayala North Exchange where Bank of the Philippine Islands is...
SPEAKING OUT The COVID-19 pandemic changed the world. There is nothing normal in our lives these days, except for the thing we call “new normal.” Even in the middle of the game, businesses cancelled or shifted plans as they tread water amid unprecedented conditions. The insurance industry,...
Speaking Out Ignacio R. Bunye Aside from physical measures to help contain the spread of COVID-19, Muntinlupa City has stepped up its fight on another front – the minds and hearts of Muntinlupeños. Stressing the importance of continuously reminding his constituents, Mayor Jaime R. Fresnedi,...
SPEAKING OUT Banko Mare Antonette’s partners are self-employed microentrepreneurs (SEMEs) doing business in and around the Municipality of Virac, in the island province of Catanduanes. The economy of Virac is sustained primarily by agriculture – the farming of rice, corn, bananas, and...
SPEAKING OUT Monsignor Tomas T. Gonzalez, who served as our parish priest at San Roque de Alabang for nine years (1976-1985), had a charmed life. On countless occasions, he stared death in the face. He had his first brush with death at age ten, when the Willy’s Jeep the whole Gonzalez family...
