ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (Facebook) ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo reclaimed the top spot in the Tangere’s November senatorial survey for 2025 midterm elections. The big data research firm’s survey conducted from Nov. 2 to 4, 2023 found that 60 percent of Filipinos would vote...
OF TREES AND FOREST Last Oct. 30, 2023, my family and I trooped to the Las Piñas City National Science High School in Talon Dos to cast our votes for the Barangay and SK Elections. I was joined by my wife Cynthia and my children Mark, Paolo and Camille. The voting went smoothly and I would like to...
FINDING ANSWERS The slaughter of innocent children and other civilians had the world grieving for Israel as it coped with the shock of the Oct. 7 massacre perpetrated by Hamas terrorists. Widespread condemnation of the treacherous attack reverberated across the globe as people fully understood why...
PEACE-MAKER As of this writing, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was scheduled to speak at the joint session of the House of Representatives and Senate at the Batasan Pambansa. This paper’s editorial yesterday, Nov. 4, pointed out that the Japanese Premier’s address is...
OF TREES AND FOREST Filipinos have a tendency to adopt a tradition and make it their own by incorporating their own cultural twists. For instance, Undas—those two days that include Todos Los Santos or All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day or Araw ng Kaluluwa—was borne out of our deep Catholic...
FINDING ANSWERS Yesterday’s Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) to choose who among the 1.41 million candidates would serve in our 42,027 barangays finally pushed through, to the delight of many. After years of multiple postponements, the BSKE finally happened. The last time BSKE...
PEACE-MAKER (In our column last Sunday, we spoke of the need to create more avenues for dialogue, cooperation, and solidarity amid the protracted wars, lingering tensions, as well as the issues and challenges besetting the international community. One such avenue is through political parties. We...
OF TREES AND FOREST The Villar Group is extremely proud to be recognized for our good corporate governance by the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD). Our listed companies — Vista Land & Lifescapes Inc., AllDay Marts Inc., AllHome Corp., Golden MV Holdings, Inc., and Vistamalls Inc., were...
FINDING ANSWERS Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, according to renowned French novelist Victor Hugo. The famous quote can certainly be true for those who act promptly on an idea that turns out to be really beneficial. For those who dilly-dally, losing big time is a real...
PEACE-MAKER We sadly note the ongoing bloodshed in Israel and Palestine; long-drawn-out war in Ukraine; lingering tensions in the Korean Peninsula, West Philippine Sea, East China Sea, and Taiwan Straits; periodic killings in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, among many other bloody hostilities...
OF TREES AND FORESTS (This is a continuation of the speech I am sharing with my readers. It was delivered during the National Convention & Housing Expo of the Chamber of Real Estate & Builders' Association (CREBA) held at the SMX Mall of Asia.) Today, Tondo, and in fact, Metropolitan Manila...
FINDING ANSWERS “We are up to the challenge. We are committed and passionate to bring about transformation in the next 10 years.” That’s the assurance Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, co-convenor of the newly-formed Mayors for Good Governance (M4GG), gave at the recent Kapihan sa Manila...
