HOTSPOT If voting were held today, President Marcos Jr.’s new electoral alliance is on-course to dominate the 2025 national and local midterm elections. Marcos himself boasted that he has been able to field candidates not just for the 12 Senate seats, but for all the over 18,000...
While 2025 is expected to be a promising year for the country due to an anticipated consumption rebound, the Unicapital Group has lowered its year-end target for the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) to 7,800 from 8,000. In a briefing, Unicapital Securities Inc. Head of Research Wendy...
Seven persons were injured when a multi-cab rammed a dump truck parked on the Davao-Digos Highway going to Davao City in Santa Cruz, Davao del Sur on Sunday, Feb. 9. Dashcam video showed traffic moving smoothly when the multi-cab on the rightmost lane suddenly crashed into the truck....
HOTSPOT It has gotten tough to react to current events these days, since everything is no longer as predictable and everything we used to view as permanent can now easily go away. This week, 215 members of the House of Representatives signed and endorsed the impeachment complaint...
Kheith Rhynne Cruz came up short and took home two silver medals in two Under-19 table tennis competitions in Doha, Qatar over the weekend. Kheith Rhynne Cruz (Facebook) In the WTT Youth Star Contender Doha 2025, the 18-year-old Cruz barged into the U-19 girls’ singles finals and battled...
HOTSPOT Like many of my friends, I was surprised by the recent Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) rally that appeared to be against the impeachment process being initiated against the Vice President. Then, many were surprised to find out that a group called “National Coalition for the Family and the...
Farm Fresh turned to the hard-hitting duo of Jolina Dela Cruz and Trisha Tubu as it swept Nxled, 25-22, 26-24, 25-21, at the resumption of the Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference at the Philsports Arena in Pasig City on Saturday, Jan. 18. Jolina Dela Cruz returns with a bang by...
HOTSPOT This week, I had the opportunity to visit Bacacay, a small town in Albay. The town’s patroness is St. Rose of Lima, formerly the principal co-patroness of the Philippines alongside St. Prudentiana until 1942, when Pope Paul XII declared the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of...
HOTSPOT Perhaps one of the first big political frustrations of my college contemporaries happened nearly three decades ago. It wasn’t about a presidential election, but the selection of our paper’s editor-in-chief. Going into the selection process, we were confident that our aspirant had the...
HOTSPOT My sister’s first grandson Calix was supposed to visit Friday, his birthday, but a hopelessly-inept work manager texted his mother late Thursday to take back the approved leave because the company would be understaffed. Why that became our family problem that the work manager even went so...
HOTSPOT I won’t be able to forget 2024. I would gladly say goodbye to it, but would always remember it for many reasons. On a personal level, this is the year we marked an important family milestone: the birth in February of my sister’s first granddaughter Stella Avery. We were as happy...
HOTSPOT The young ones who are transitioning into adults are wondering why Christmas nowadays seems to be not as fun as when they were kids. They are slowly discovering an age-old secret. This secret is passed on through generations. It is quickly discovered by working students, young breadwinners,...
