It’s this time of the year when banks and corporates are reporting their net income. It ‘s also stockholders’ eeting time. The holding of the annual stockholders’ meeting, just like in any other meetings, will not differ but will be In conformity to the health protocol standards, virtual...
I do understand that given the situation we’re all in, we have to be creative. But, no matter how I think of it, I can’t get enough of the news update about the flag-carrier going into food delivery. Sometime last month, Philippine Airlines (PAL) introduced its online food shop delivery,...
Nope! It’s not the 72-minute long 2018 documentary composed from the 90 hours of “lost” footage which legendary William Wyler used for his 1943 documentary “The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress.” It is a state that can best describe the air transport industry at the moment. The...
In an exceptional move, Philippine National Bank (PNB) President and Chief Executive Officer Jose Arnulfo “Wick” Veloso will be taking on two important positions at the Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP). Notwithstanding his role as the newly anointed shepherd of the influential...
Whenever I hear the word mining, what comes to mind is the documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth,” a campaign project of former US vice president Al Gore to educate and make people aware of global warming. For us here in the Philippines, we have our very own environmentalist. Unfortunately,...
Jun Samson, past president of Rotary Club Paseo de Roxas and a travelling footloose, sent me this text: “I dream of the day, when I will walk down the aisle and hear these words: This is your captain speaking...” We both share the same passion: we relish going on journeys. Compared to PP Jun, I...
The wait is over. After two weeks, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) officially announced the appointment of former USAID chief of Party-E-Peso activity Mamerto “Mert” Tangonan as its fourth deputy governor in charge of the payments and currency management sector. Under...
I am in agreement with the decision of Palace to defer for the time being the shift to a more flexible Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) until the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine. Somehow, it’s similar to one of the four guiding standards in easing the lockdown unveiled by British...
I would have titled this piece “Babalik Ka Rin” but decided against it, lest that I be accused of copyright infringement. Still, this song which debuted in 1994, written and sung by Gary Valenciano, dedicated to the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) keeps ringing in my ear as I said before like...
This is a prologue of my piece last week about the on-going reorganization and restructuring of positions at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). I promised my muted sources last week that like them my lips are sealed up until the approval. Now it can be shared. Between then and the...
It was temporarily put on hold last year due to the pandemic. The deferment in implementation has now been lifted – the re-organization and the restructuring of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). There’s no stopping it now. While the private sector is grappling with the news that more...
Pax, the 13-year-old son of Marivic, had been wishing to have breakfast with his family in some restaurant to celebrate his birthday. He and his mother were thus thrilled when the Inter-agency task force (IATF) on COVID-19 relaxed the age requirement down to 10 from 14 years old for people...
