OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Just when Philippine inflation appeared to have been tamed based on its month-on-month movement in December 2022, inflation shocked the market with the highest annual rate since November 2008. For last Tuesday, the Philippine Statistics Authority reported...
In Tourism and Hospitality National Skills Competition In the recent 2 nd Council of Hotel and Restaurant Educators of the Philippines (COHREP) National Skills Competition, Centro Escolar University School of Nutrition and Hospitality Management students bagged numerous awards. This year, the theme...
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed between two attached agencies of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) seeking to strengthen research collaboration on the applications of nuclear science and technology in the fields of volcanology and seismology. DOST-Philippine...
The Senate Committee on Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development is fine-tuning a bill giving an advance cash gift of P10,000 to 80- to 90-year-old senior citizens on top of the P100,000 given to Filipino centenarians. The fine-tuning of Senate Bill No. 21 filed by Senator Ramon “Bong”...
To discuss efforts and possible partnerships that would be mutually beneficial for the member countries, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) state members and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ministers gathered during the second day of the 3rd ASEAN Digital Ministers...
The country's unemployment rate dropped to 4.3 percent in December 2022 as against 6.6 percent in December 2021, but the full-year unemployment rate remained below its pre-pandemic average, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed. Based on the PSA report on Wednesday, Feb. 8, the...
The House Committee on Agriculture and Food is expediting the conduct of its motu proprio investigation on the issue of agricultural products hoarding. Onions at a Quezon City supermarket (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Originally scheduled on Wednesday, Feb, 14, the panel inquiry will instead...
The House Committee on Ways and Means has begun to review the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act (CREATE) and other related tax laws. Senior Deputy Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (left, standing) This, after the panel chaired by Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda took up...
OF TREES AND FORESTS Former Senate President Manny Villar Being president is a complex and difficult job. The President has a multitude of responsibilities. He is the Chief Executive in that he overseas the entire bureaucracy of the Philippine government. He is the foremost architect of our foreign...
Search operations continue two weeks after a Cessna plane went missing in Isabela province, an official of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) bared on Tuesday, Feb. 7. "The search started last Jan. 24. Until now, we haven't found it," CAAP Deputy Director General Edgardo Diaz...
Romance doesn’t always have to be a couple in love. It can be about grand gestures, affinity to an era, and making things count in a larger than life manner. These novels “bleed” romance—and in good ways. 'The Bleeding' by Johana Gustawsson; 'Or What You Will' by Jo Walton; 'The Whalebone...
Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri believes there would be 16 votes or two thirds of the 24-member Senate to ratify the controversial Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement. Zubiri made this assessment after a sub-committee of the Senate foreign relations committee held a...
