CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN “We haven’t the time to take our time.” – Eugene Ionesco Hector RR Villanueva The economic managers are hedging and preparing the mind of the public that economic recovery and going back pandemic normalcy will be a long time in coming and uncertain. And, our procurement...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN “Asia-Pacific countries do not wish to be forced to choose between the United States and China.” – Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Hector RR Villanueva What if the United States decides to pay the maintenance of American troops stationed in the Philippines under...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “The race is to the swift; the battle to the strong.” – John Davidson The next president must not take off where President Rodrigo Roa Duterte had left off in his obsessive war against drug trafficking and drug addiction,...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.” – George Bernard Shaw The periodic announcement by the Bangko Sentral of the rate of inflation is generally meaningless to the ordinary man in the street. What he knows is that prices are...
Online distance learning can be overwhelming, most especially when you have a lot to catch up with. When 41-year-old housewife Lea R. Villanueva shared a photo of her 18-year-old daughter Kyla Mhikaela engrossed in finishing her schoolwork, the post garnered over 7,000 shares. Manila Bulletin...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” – Giuseppe di Lampadusa The solution to every problem it seems is to create a task force and leave it at that. With vaccines at hand to tame the raging coronavirus pandemic, and...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “Ring out the old, ring in the new, the year is going, let him go; Ring out false; ring in the true.” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson Let us be candid about it. Though buoyed up with hope, economic recovery is not around the corner. The COVID-19 pandemic will...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “A wrong decision isn’t forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever.” – J.K. Galbraith The rapid and record-breaking discovery of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine can only be described as awesome, phenomenal, and...
Photo from PFL Mar Diano and Dennis Villanueva continued the trend of Filipino footballers plying their trade in Thailand after joining different clubs this week. Diano is joining former Azkals Development Team teammate Jarvey Gayoso at Muangthong United while Villanueva became the latest player to...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “The public be damned! I’m working for my stockholders.” – William H. Vanderbilt The harsh imposition of lockdowns is the easy part while the downside effects on the economy are incalculable and debilitating – which government...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “What may happen is what keeps us alive. We want to see tomorrow.” – John Steinbeck We shall overcome because we must. With anti-COVID-19 vaccine available soon, the optimistic economic forecast is that we will have economic revival by 2021-2022....
FYA! TG Villanueva is an artist you should be paying attention to right now It’s been a while but we’re resurrecting this segment where Manila Bulletin Lifestyle Arts + Culture features local young artists on the rise. For our comeback piece, we turn our gaze to an artist who describes himself...
