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...
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 Tharman Shanmugaratnam, senior minister and chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), is not one who would simply brush off important events strategic to the global economy and Singapore. Referring to the recent confluence of the Ukraine...
The next administration must make the move from a consumer-driven economy to an investment-driven one to cushion the impact of future shocks and crises on the economy. Diwa Guinigundo, former Deputy Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. (BLOOMBERG PHOTO) Thus, said former Bangko Sentral ng...
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...
This initiative is headed and by a female visual artist, Melissa Yeung-Yap Photos courtesy of Breih Pascua THE SPOTLIGHT IS ON The provincial government of Tarlac with the help of visual artist Melissa Yeung-Yap rolls out different programs to empower the local art scene For the longest time, the...
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...
With a number of areas now under Alert Level 1, many are expected to troop to different churches for the observance of Ash Wednesday on March 2. Photo Manila Cathedral FB Churches already posted the schedule of their masses on Facebook, Tuesday, to help guide the faithful. Masses at the Manila...
These jail officers can really shoot well. A team of marksmen from the CALABARZON (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) office of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) won the overall championship in the Second National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) Regional Mobile Force...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Of the many weaknesses of the Philippine economy during the Marcos dictatorship, its heavy reliance on foreign borrowing to finance domestic investment was most debilitating. The idea then was to use borrowed funds to accelerate the growth of the...
