Editorial Andres Bonifacio shares with Jose Rizal the distinction of being honored on a non-working holiday for his contribution to the shaping of a national identity among Filipinos. While Rizal is honored on the date of his martyrdom, the Bonifacio commemoration coincides with his birthday. Born...
Editorial The three-day National Vaccination Days, declared by the national government as a collective "Bayanihan, Bakuhanan" drive to further push up the number of jabs including booster shots, starts today, Nov. 29, 2021. Originally, the target vaccination output was 15 million, or at five...
Editorial Cyber-criminals who defraud and steal money from bank customers will be arrested, prosecuted and jailed. Thus declared the Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) through its president Arnulfo Veloso as he announced the imminent signing of a memorandum of agreement with the...
Editorial Emerging from the recent 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change summit, the Philippines joined the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use and committed to reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030. More than...
Editorial Responding to an advisory of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) that all government and private entities should accept the Philippine Identification Card (PhilID) as proof of identity, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) ordered all banks and financial institutions under its...
Editorial “The Monetary Board maintains that keeping a patient hand on the BSP’s policy levers, along with appropriate fiscal and health interventions, will keep the economic recovery more sustainable over the next few quarters.” Thus did Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin...
Editorial Thirty years after becoming a dialogue partner of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China has called for a summit on Nov. 22, 2021 to upgrade its status to being a comprehensive strategic partner. China’s partnership level ties with countries and regional blocs are...
Editorial Government trained its sights last week on financial technology (or ‘fintech’) companies as the Secretary of Finance instructed the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to ensure that these are properly regulated and taxed while encouraging...
Editorial Christmas is approaching — 34 days to go! So is the specter of a new wave of COVID-19 cases. Let’s not repeat the mistake of Christmas 1918, during the Spanish flu pandemic, when, as World War I ended in November and Christmas was around the bend, homecoming dinners, holiday shopping,...
Editorial As they invited the presidential candidates to present their platforms, leaders of the recent Philippine Business Conference submitted a 10-point proposal for post-pandemic economic recovery. Their proposals covered the following: 1) Institutionalize innovation for economic development,...
EDITORIAL Responsibility and respect were the watchwords in the virtual summit held earlier this week between the leaders of the world’s rival superpowers: US President Joseph Biden and China’s leader Xi Jinping. China had just elevated President Xi to the same preeminent status as erstwhile...
Editorial As face-to-face classes resumed in select public schools on Monday, Nov. 15, it is no longer a question of whether it could be done or not. While yesterday’s pilot run of face-to-face classes by the Department of Education (DepEd) was highly anticipated, both by those who have been...
