State-owned Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) reported record loan disbursements totaling P289 billion last year, providing financial support to over 1.2 million government employees. In a statement, Wick Veloso, GSIS president and general manager, said the strong loan releases were driven...
More than a week after they held a rally, Vice President Sara Duterte held a meet-and-greet event with overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are also her supporters in Japan on Sunday, Jan. 12. Vice President Sara Duterte speaks to her Filipino supporters during a meet and greet event in...
The Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) in Taiwan is promoting to Filipinos job opportunities in the island that can offer at least P52,000 salary per month. Cesar Chavez, Jr., the country's labor attachè in Taiwan, said the Philippine government is urging Filipinos to take advantage...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte (PPAB) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte foresees better legal protection--among other benefits--for the estimated 700,000 Filipino mariners following the swift release of the implementing...
OFF TO SIGHT SEE Map out your journey to see the world (Photo from Freepik) As French novelist Émile Zola so aptly said, “Nothing fuels intelligence like traveling.” What may seem like a simple pastime has the power to broaden our perspectives, challenge our assumptions, and introduce...
New Year has become a time for resolutions but as I said in last week’s column, resolutions are born on any given hour or second every day. Some accomplish their resolutions sooner than others. Some resolutions do take time, sometimes years, to accomplish. In last week’s column, I mentioned two...
CREATIVE TRIO Olivia d'Aboville, Solenn Heussaff-Bolzico, and Stephanie Frondoso MOTUS , 48 inches, acrylic, posca pen, oil pastel, and abaca polyester textile When all seems lost, we turn our minds to the welcoming serenity of nature to tune things out and be at peace again. Imagine yourself deep...
ARNOLD LALONGISIP Visual artist Arnold Lalongisip’s recently concluded exhibit “The Madrid Collection” at the Art Underground was a testament to the artist’s connection with the Spanish capital. This intimate series, comprised of just 12 meticulously crafted pieces, was a unique...
Time, to Philippine Airlines president and pilot Stanley Ng, is precious. Yet he gives it freely, or as generously as he could, given that, like his idols Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, like Jesus Christ himself, he only has 24 hours a day. That’s why, if he could, Stanley, the youngest...
By JEL GUECO Was it just a while back, but the holiday season is over? Many have already rebooted their mindsets to work mode, but you are just realizing you’ve been too holidazed to worry about gifts. Or maybe it’s for the boss who went on an extended holiday or the surprise...
By JACQUELINE LUCERO Images from Freepik Life often feels like a whirlwind, pulling us in every direction except the one toward our own peace and wellbeing. To counteract this, what if we embarked on a 52-week journey—one entire year—dedicated to nurturing ourselves and...
OUT TO PLAY The Warriors follows the story of a gang trying to survive the night after being framed for the murder of a gang leader who aimed to unify all gangs in New York (Photo from IMDB) Who are The Warriors? Initially received as a box office failure, The Warriors is a 1979 action...
