OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo UP Diliman early this week unveiled an art installation appropriately labelled “Barikada” at the Oblation Plaza. Toym Imao could not have created a more fitting tribute to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1971 Diliman Commune. When this eight-day...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT O ne thing we cannot ascribe to the British is the propensity to secrecy. In monetary policy, the Brits could not be more than transparent. The Bank of England for over 20 years has been publishing the minutes of its meetings on monetary policy held eight times a year. While...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo We certainly are not Hamlet to contemplate on whether it is better to live or to die. It is quite obvious for us to keep safe and stay healthy. We all want to live unless we give more weight to Hamlet’s musing that life is lack of power. Some of us must...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo In our last column for 2020, we called on the Philippine authorities not to drop the ball this year. It’s 2021. There’s no more time to catch up; we are in the last quarter of the game. Even a full-court press, man to man guarding of every political or...
GMA Network’s socio-civic arm GMA Kapuso Foundation (GMAKF) fulfills the Kapuso mandate of Serbisyong Totoo via its ‘Operation Bayanihan’ relief operations as thousands of Filipinos across the country are in dire need of help following the onslaught of Super Typhoon Rolly and, most recently,...
former BSP Deputy Governor Diwa C. Guinigundo As 2019 ends, we have witnessed three and a half years of governance by the Duterte administration. The administration began with an 8, then a 10-Point Program, correctly focusing on what ails a lower-middle-income country like the Philippines. This...
