OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Eleven years ago, S.W.A.T.: Firefight was released as a sequel to the 2003 film S.W.A.T. It’s now running in Netflix and despite a few gaffes, like firing a .50 caliber rifle showing no recoil, it’s quite engaging. One key take-away from the film is...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo It’s a punchy technology, this “Alexa” of Amazon, that revolves around Wi-Fi to access everything from Google to various music-streaming services like Spotify.Alexa is not one software that would hesitate in responding to practically all questions...
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...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Two columns ago, we sounded the alarm about another ball in the air. This is the US Federal Board jacking up interest rates at least four times this year. We derived this conclusion from the IMF’s warning to emerging economies (EEs) earlier this month...
The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability has recommended the filing of graft charges against former Information and Communications Technology Undersecretary Eliseo Rio Jr. in connection with alleged irregularities in the implementation of the Pipol Konek Project in 2018....
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...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo The last bastion of democracy in the Philippines is the civil courts and constitutional commissions which rule on cases brought to their sala. It is crucial that they keep to their constitutional mandate to uphold the rule of law and promote justice in...
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...
Freddie Aguilar 'Diwa Ng Pasko' Artwork Aside from the festive mood, glorious food, overflowing drinks, and gifts, we look forward to hearing Christmas carols at the first hint of the holiday season. Two Christmas songs by Pinoy Folk King Freddie Aguilar capture the beauty of being home for...
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...
