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...
A Matisse exhibition to welcome the new year ArtSpeak Ramon E.S. Lerma What better way to usher in the New Year with an overflow of positivity than to see an extraordinary exhibition that brings together over 100 works by the great French artist Henri Matisse from the collection of the Centre...
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...
Other Field Offices of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) have stepped up to augment the food and non-food item supplies of the regions affected by the onslaught of typhoon Odette. DSWD Region IX Facebook page) The gesture of the FOs that were spared by "Odette" was an...
By BARBIE ATIENZA MB FAMILY RISES TO THE OCCASION — Responding promptly to the call for help for typhoon Odette-affected families in the Visayas and Mindanao, the Manila Bulletin staff and management worked together to speedily pack bags of hope stuffed with essential goods. The ongoing...
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...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) urged unvaccinated individuals on Friday, Nov. 19, to "be modern heroes" and rekindle the traditional bayanihan spirit (unity) by participating in the National Vaccination Day. DILG DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya said the National...
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...
