OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo If we go by what the surveys are saying, the possible results of the May 2022 presidential election may at best be mixed. Abstracting from their sampling designs, surveys convey different narratives. The major surveys seem to show that former Senator...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Believing that public office is a public trust requires one to search for integrity and honesty among the presidential candidates offering themselves to the Filipino electorate. William J. Bennett’s New York Times best-selling The Book of Virtues should...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Eleven years ago, S.W.A.T.: Firefight was released as a sequel to the 2003 film S.W.A.T. It’s now running in Netflix and despite a few gaffes, like firing a .50 caliber rifle showing no recoil, it’s quite engaging. One key take-away from the film is...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo It’s a punchy technology, this “Alexa” of Amazon, that revolves around Wi-Fi to access everything from Google to various music-streaming services like Spotify.Alexa is not one software that would hesitate in responding to practically all questions...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo As early as the third quarter 2020, still at the peak of the global pandemic, our alma mater, the London School of Economics (LSE), had already launched the “Shaping the Post-COVID World” initiative to debate the direction of post-COVID world. One of...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo (Let me share this abridged transcription of my message to the Fullness of Christ International Ministries based in Mandaluyong of which I have been the senior pastor since 2003.) This new year could be more challenging because of both health and economic...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo It is ideal to end the year 2021 with a loud bang of hope. There was so much promise to the other day’s broadsheets report that COVID-19 vaccines now aggregate 200.9 million doses, broadly sufficient for 100 million Filipinos of two doses each. As of...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT (Part II) Diwa C. Guinigundo Notwithstanding the sustained decline in the daily COVID-19 cases, the Pharmally scandal will never be moot and academic. Pharmally represents the corruption of our health. Its ghosts will continue to haunt us. Our health authorities always...
Of substance and spirit Diwa C. Guinigundo W hile Omicron threatens to enter the Philippines’ area of responsibility and our health authorities continue to caution us against panic, the Senate hearing on Pharmally might as yet unearth “billions of pesos in ghost deliveries of...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Those latest health data from the Department of Health looked encouraging. Only 425 new cases were reported last Tuesday with 909 recoveries and 44 new deaths. Since the start of the pandemic, some 2.83 million have been infected with COVID-19 of various...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo The news about the highest unemployment rate of 8.9 percent for the whole of 2021 came out in the first week of November 2021 but its impact had already resonated with the respondents of Pulse Asia for September 2021.We saw this crystal clear in the...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Atty. Howard Calleja of 1Sambayan described the political circus prior to Nov. 15 as cirque du freak, circus of freaks. Trying to stretch their flexibility before finalizing their political plan, some politicians actually subvert the spirit of our...
