Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda is gnashing his teeth over the Department of Energy's (DOE) apparent inability to respond to the country's power situation, which he thinks could lead to rotating blowouts very soon. (Jarl Schmidt/ Unsplash) "Over the past days, half of our baseload plants have...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye I recently received this news which should be most welcomed by investors seeking to improve their yields over the long term and at the same time participate meaningfully in achieving sustainable development goals. BPI Asset Management and Trust Corporation (BPI AMTC),...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye (Last March 1, Muntinlupa City celebrated its 27th anniversary as a city. The author, who served as Muntinlupa mayor from 1986 to 1998, relives Muntinlupa’s journey to cityhood in this three-part article.) With the significant inflow of money into the...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye (On March 1, 2022, Muntinlupa City observed its 27th anniversary as a highly urbanized city. In this 3-part article, the author, who served as Muntinlupa Mayor from 1986 to 1998, relives Muntinlupa’s journey to cityhood.) I grew up in the ‘50s when Muntinlupa was...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye 1976 was an eventful year for me personally and providentially for Muntinlupa as well. It was the year when a group of then young community leaders met and organized the Kiwanis Club of Muntinlupa Rizal, now one of the premiere service clubs of the city. Among the...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye News clips from the Associated Press, CNN and BBC indicate that a number of Ukranian sports heroes have donned uniforms and ballistic helmets to defend their country against the Russian invasion. Former boxing 3-division world champion Vasyl Lomachenko has joined a...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Until recently, my knowledge of Ukraine (Crimea in particular) was limited to what I picked up in high school. My English teacher, who also happened to be my mother, Sofia Rivera Bunye, asked her class to memorize “Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Tomorrow (March 1) Muntinlupa will observe its 27th anniversary as a city. It was on this day that former President Fidel V. Ramos, Muntinlupa’s most famous adopted son, signed Muntinlupa’s city charter which converted Muntinlupa into a highly urbanized city. The...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye BPI Asset Management and Trust Corporation (BPI AMTC), the wealth management arm of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), reports remarkable performance among its Unit Investment Trust Funds, collectively known as BPI Invest. Exhibiting resilience amid the...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye On the eve of the New Year of the Water Tiger, Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) let out a veritable roar as it listed its P27-billion two-year bond at the Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corporation (PDEX). A visibly elated PDEX President and CEO Antonino Nakpil...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Tracking the surge in new COVID cases in the National Capital Region, Muntinlupa City reported on Jan. 14, the highest single day spike since the start of the pandemic. Muntinlupa logged 1,251 new daily confirmed cases. Barangay Putatan, where the city hall is...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Last week’s article on former SC Chief Justice Art Panganiban elicited quite a few queries about how CJ Art and other SC justices saved me from going to prison in 1999. Allow me to reprise the story, which earlier appeared in my latest book “Mira and Other...
