I would have titled this piece “Babalik Ka Rin” but decided against it, lest that I be accused of copyright infringement. Still, this song which debuted in 1994, written and sung by Gary Valenciano, dedicated to the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) keeps ringing in my ear as I said before like...
This is a prologue of my piece last week about the on-going reorganization and restructuring of positions at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). I promised my muted sources last week that like them my lips are sealed up until the approval. Now it can be shared. Between then and the...
It was temporarily put on hold last year due to the pandemic. The deferment in implementation has now been lifted – the re-organization and the restructuring of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). There’s no stopping it now. While the private sector is grappling with the news that more...
Pax, the 13-year-old son of Marivic, had been wishing to have breakfast with his family in some restaurant to celebrate his birthday. He and his mother were thus thrilled when the Inter-agency task force (IATF) on COVID-19 relaxed the age requirement down to 10 from 14 years old for people...
Most of us are still trying to recover from the all-nighter we did to watch the end of a bratty, snobbish Donald Trump presidency Wednesday that ended in the wee hours of Thursday morning. The assumption of Joseph Biden as the 46 th president of the US of A was history unfolding as many firsts...
Papa Ben tells me that the selection procedure of the next president of the Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) is a “fascinating process,” this year. The nomination forms were farmed out to the 45 member-banks on the day I wrote about the leadership succession in the...
This time, that Karen is a he. Gennica Cochran A fun birthday dinner ended up with a bitter taste for a Fil-Am family after a white man spewed racist slur at them at a restaurant in Carmel Valley, California. Raymond Orosa and his family went to Bernadus Lodge and Spa’s Lucia restaurant to...
