SPEAKING OUT With the oncoming El Niño season , which is expected to adversely affect water supply both for drinking and irrigation, President Bongbong Marcos’ recent announcement could not have come at a better time. PBBM approved the creation of a Water Resource Management Office which will...
SPEAKING OUT I was most pleasantly surprised last Friday when I walked into the Trade Expo initiated by the Trade and Vocational Education Department of the Muntinlupa Business High School (MBHS). Held in cooperation with Waltermart Mall, Sucat, Muntinlupa City, the one-day activity was held to...
Men are also at risk from breast cancer. Philippine General Hospital (PGH) Cancer Institute Chairman Dr. Jorge Ignacio on Thursday, March 23, admitted that there is no sufficient data to thoroughly understand the occurrence of breast cancer among men. “We know too little about the biology of...
An official of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) Cancer Institute warned of a possible uptick in advanced cancer cases in the next two to three years. This increase, according to PGH Cancer Institute Chairman Dr. Jorge Ignacio, may be attributed to pandemic-delayed screenings and treatments....
SPEAKING OUT Pag-IBIG Fund has tapped BPI’s wealth management arm, BPI Asset Management and Trust Corporation (now known as BPI Wealth), to manage an additional P1 billion investment mandate, bringing its total managed fund to ₱2 billion. This comes after a rigorous four-month bidding process....
SPEAKING OUT In last week’s article, we started to report on the gains achieved by Muntinlupa City Mayor Rufino Rozzano Biazon on the K Agenda: Kalusugan, Karunungan and Kabuhayan. We resume the report to cover the other programs, namely, Katarungan, Kapayapaan/Kaayusan, Kalikasan, Kaunlaran and...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Banking and shopping just got easier, thanks to a pioneering tie-up between Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) and Lazada, one of the largest e-commerce operators in Southeast Asia. Last month, BPI president and CEO Jose Teodoro “TG” Limcaoco and Lazada...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Thousands of Philippine Coast Guard officers and staff now have access to Saludo sa Serbisyo, Ayala Corporation’s comprehensive and sustainable needs-based program for the community’s uniformed service personnel. Launched in 2018, Saludo sa Serbisyo also covers...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has met with a renewable energy developer to advance his intention to find other sources of energy in the country. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) Marcos had a meeting with San Ignacio Energy Resources Development...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye The proposed merger between Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) and Robinsons Bank Corporation (RBC) continued on track with its recent approval in a special BPI stockholders meeting held last week. BPI Chairman Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, Vice Chairman Cezar P....
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Belated congratulations to the Ateneo Debate Society (Ateneo A), composed of David Africa and Toby Leung, for winning the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) 2023 in Madrid, Spain. This is a historic first for Ateneo since it started competing in the WUDC....
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye The key to the success and longevity of a bank is trust. Once more, Bank of the Philippine Islands established its trustworthiness with the expert and quick resolution of an incident which occurred on Jan. 4. BPI’s systems double-posted transactions that were made on...
