IT'S THE SMALL THINGS For some reason, this Mother’s Day hits differently from the rest. Having my own now, the definition of the word, and the role has most certainly transformed right before my very eyes, and continues to evolve everyday. Three months later, and suffice to...
IT'S THE SMALL THINGS There has been an unexplained and abrupt silence in this space since January, and I heavily apologize for that. My last piece was a welcome to the new year and ended with the desire to share my goals and set my intentions for the new year (as I always do) but alas, that never...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday, April 2, addressed the challenges among many small businesses including limited technical and financial capacity and lack of knowledge about the FDA requirements. Photo from Pixabay To empower local entrepreneurs, FDA Director General Samuel Zacate...
TORONTO – Players in the nuclear industry in Canada are ready to export their technologies as well as technical capabilities to the Philippines once the country decides firmly on the resurgence of its nuclear power ambitions. Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith conveyed to a recent delegation from...
Integrated solar developer SP New Energy Corp. (SPNEC), now a member of the Meralco Group, has replaced MREIT Inc. in the exclusive and coveted MSCI Philippines Small Cap Index. Source: MSCI, First Metro Securities The addition of SPNEC and deletion of MREIT are the only changes in the closely...
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent an important part of the Philippine economy. However, official records lump SMEs and bundle it with micro enterprises. The Philippine SME law is known as the Magna Carta for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. While this considers the numbers in the...
BAGUIO CITY – Twenty-eight illegal Small Town Lottery (STL) bookies have been convicted for illegal bet collection in the province of Benguet. The Regional Trial Court of Benguet said 27 illegal bet collectors were sentenced from August to December 2023. The 28th was convicted on January 26,...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – An authorized agent corporation of the Small Town Lottery (STL) here and the province of Misamis Oriental is helping 14 sales representatives obtain freedom after they were arrested and detained by the police over the weekend due to their alleged involvement in illegal...
Everchance Gaming Corp.'s lottery machine (Everchance Gaming Corp.'s Facebook page) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte, alongside three other lawmakers, are calling on President Marcos to junk the franchise of Evenchance Gaming Corp. as operator of...
IT'S THE SMALL THINGS “And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” — Eliot And that is exactly where I start this piece from. The holiday frenzy and pandemonium very much took me over the last week of December, explaining my absence from this place last week....
Malacañang has turned down provisions in the Ease of Paying Taxes (EOPT) law that aimed to exempt small businesses from deducting withholding taxes. In a letter dated Jan. 5, 2024, addressed to the House of Representatives, President Marcos said he was “constrained to veto Section 8,” of...
IT'S THE SMALL THINGS Twenty twenty-three. What a year. It tried. It tested. But, it also triumphed. If I were to summarize what it has been to me, I would need to borrow the words of Charles Dickens: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Suffice to say, all is well that ends...
