Of substance and spirit Diwa C. Guinigundo Y es, there is a good likelihood of yet another close vote and electoral protest between VP Leni and Marcos Jr. on May 9, 2022. This much was the bottom line of the recent analysis of GlobalSource Philippine country analyst Romeo Bernardo. This is what the...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Lent brings to mind that time of penitence in some parts of Manila and Pampanga where flagellants abound on Good Friday. Some are nailed on the cross. Briefly done and with proper support, such is a pathetic partaking of the passion of Jesus. After an...
The lyrics of rookie K-pop boy band EPEX’s new song has been changed after the group was accused of making references to a riot carried out by the Nazis against Jews in Germany in the 1930s. EPEX made their comeback with the release of the new album “Prelude of Anxiety Chapter 1. '21st Century...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo 1Sambayan could not have clarified it more clearly, that no less than the Supreme Court in January 1999 ruled that the Marcoses owed the government ₱ 23.3 billion in estate taxes. For their failure to pay, the Marcoses accumulated tax liabilities...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo It was good that the Department of Finance (DOF) decided to prepare “a transition plan to help the next administration manage the country’s debt.” Some of its components must still be tentative. We have not seen a copy of the plan but it is crucial...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo By this afternoon, we expect the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to announce that it’s keeping its monetary policy stance of accommodating growth and looking through what it believes to be a temporary rise in inflation. This outcome is a foregone...
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...
Netflix’s global Korean hit series “Squid Game” star Lee Jung-jae won best actor at the the 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards held on March 6 at the Santa Monica Pier in California. Lee Jung-jae bagged the Best Male Performance In A New Scripted Series for “Squid Game,” winning over...
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...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. Judging from the way the People Power Revolution was celebrated last Feb. 25, it seems that the word EDSA has become a verbal overkill. The quantity of usage has outstripped the quality of discourse. EDSA seems to have lost its power and magic. Many...
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...
