ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Sometime in my past life as a business newspaper columnist, I paused to reflect. What is it that prods me to write in a way that was critical, or even cynical? I realized that I was swimming with the tide and riding the wave of criticism against the powers-that-be and how they...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma My closest experience with a spontaneous celebration of a football World Cup championship happened in 2002. While riding a tour bus in Lisbon, Portugal, I witnessed a motorcade of jubilant fans celebrating Brazil’s 2-0 victory over Germany. Honking their horns, they shouted...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “The wild future of artificial intelligence” was the catchy title of the Atlantic Daily newsletter’s email that prompted me to reflect on AI’s emergence in the forefront of the digital revolution. Associate editor Isabel Fattal and staff writer Derek Thompson talked...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “The real wealth of nations consists of the contributions of people and our natural environment.” Thus wrote Riane Eisler in her pathfinding work, the Real Wealth of Nations, Creating a Caring Economics (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007). This was one of my references...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma In keeping with its commitment to serve as an exponent of Philippine progress, the Manila Bulletin is conducting its first Sustainability Forum that focuses on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework that has been adopted by many corporations. ESG builds on...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma In 10 days, Nov. 10 to 19, three significant meetings of global leaders will have taken place in Asia: first, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; second, the Group of 20, or G20, summit in Bali, Indonesia; and third, the...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Nine years ago on Nov. 8, Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) swept across the Visayas and Palawan. In terms of one-minute sustained winds, as estimated by the Hawaii-based Joint Typhoon Weather Center, it was the most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2013. In...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Philippine Army Scout Ranger Landero was part of a team that mounted an attack on a well-entrenched mountain lair of the insurgents in Makilala, Cotabato on Aug. 15, 1992. He was trailing a fellow soldier by about five meters when the latter stepped on an anti-tank land mine...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Cyrell Jones Sidlao, or Teacher CJ, a Special Education (SPED) teacher at Buyos Elementary School in Sindangan, Zamboanga Del Norte, was pleasantly surprised when two police officers came to the school to enroll a young boy. “I need to share this!” said Teacher CJ in his...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Jeric Mahilum, fourth of seven children of a tricycle driver, thanked his parents for rearing and seeing him through basic and higher education despite economic challenges as he delivered the valedictory address at Riverside College in Bacolod City last week. He was among the...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma One of the highlights of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.’s first State of the Nation Address was the presentation on the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy’s “headline goals” as follows: Real GDP growth of 6.5 to 7.5 percent in 2022 and 6.5 to 8 percent from 2023 to 2028;...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “Sailing off without a map is marvelous.” Thus began the message of gratitude delivered by Laurice Frenzel DC. Belgica, valedictorian, of the Centro Escolar Integrated School (CEIS) in Malolos City, Bulacan at the school’s commencement exercises the other day. I was...
