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 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...
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 (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 In Pulse Asia’s latest survey covering quarterly rating from September 2020 to September 2021, the Duterte administration scored the lowest approval in controlling inflation. From September 2020’s rating of 63 percent, controlling inflation slumped to...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo The President’s order preventing his cabinet from attending Senate investigation was no surprise. Every time Pharmally executives and staff open their masked mouths, testimonies accumulate to corroborate possible graft, swindling and plunder. If...
