Editorial Initiated by the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) in 1992, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), and observed in over 95 countries, World Mental Health Day is a reminder that our happiness is essential to a healthy economy just as a healthy economy is essential to...
Editorial October 8, 2021, the last day of the filing of certificate of candidacy (COC) of candidates for the election in 2022, was a pivotal moment. It formally gave us, the Filipino nation, a list of personalities who want to take up the cudgels for the top job in the country, primary of which is...
Editorial After the seizure of some P50 million worth of bagged 1-piso coins in a Quezon City warehouse, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas sounded a call for “the passage of a law on the hoarding of an extremely large volume of coins, as the central bank believes that the criminalization of this...
Editorial Due to the enforcement of the strictest COVID-19 restrictions, the unemployment rate in the Philippines increased to 8.1 percent in August 2021, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority. This is lower than the jobless rates in January, February and April this year but it exceeds...
Editorial Filipinos are among the most excited in Southeast Asia to switch to electric vehicles (EV). This was the finding of a Nissan-commissioned study by Frost & Sullivan in 2020, titled “The Future of Electrified Vehicles in Southeast Asia.” Forty-five percent of Filipino car drivers...
Editorial The central bank’s efforts to convince banks to release more funds to pandemic-hit borrowers especially the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) finally paid off in August when bank lending shifted from a contraction to a growth for the first time since December 2020. Faster...
Editorial The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has decided to extend the pilot implementation of the new Alert Levels System for COVID-19 response in the National Capital Region (NCR) while relaxing some of the Level 4 restrictions that were...
Editorial For once in this divisive political climate, all members of the Senate and the House of Representatives voted as one when they unanimously approved a measure extending the voter registration deadline for the national elections in 2022. Senate Bill 2408 was supported by House Bill 10261,...
Editorial The International Day of Older Persons is observed on October 1 each year. The holiday was observed for the first time on Oct. 1, 1991; hence, this day has been observed for the past three decades. Raising awareness on issues affecting older persons, such as senescence – or...
Editorial The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of Filipinos to shelter at home and harness the power of the internet for work, education, entertainment, and shopping for both necessities and “retail therapy.” With so many people going online for the first time, e-commerce has seen...
Editorial Election watchers are now predicting that this upcoming campaign for national elective posts will not only be one of the most divisive in our history, but may also become one of the most wasteful. In the absence of crowd-drawing rallies or mammoth miting-de-avance near election day,...
Editorial Given limited resources, new entrepreneurs always think of how to recover whatever capital they have invested in the shortest time possible. This brings the franchising concept handy. Sherill Quintana, one of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs and president of the Philippine...
