SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye For this New Year’s issue, I lend my space to readers to enable them to express their wishes and hopes for 2023. The comments are presented in no particular order and were only slightly edited for brevity. Much happiness in 2023. — Personal caregiver Jean Susi....
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Dec. 19 was a red letter day in Muntinlupa City which marked its 105th anniversary as a municipality. On Dec. 19, 1917, Governor General Francis Burton Harrison signed the proclamation separating Muntinlupa from Taguig, and making the latter an independent...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Dec. 6 was a very memorable day for Oscar Ileto Violago (Oca to classmates and friends, OIV to business associates.) After 29 trying years, Oca’s vision for a new and abundant water source for Metro Manila finally became a reality. The day marked the inauguration of...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) through its social development arm—BPI Foundation—continues to boost the Philippine social enterprise ecosystem by helping empower social enterprises (SEs) through its program, BPI Sinag. Social enterprises are viable businesses...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Recently, I had a “scary” experience of becoming temporarily but totally deaf and unable to make myself heard. I was about to chair a zoom meeting when I noticed that I could not hear the participants. Neither could they hear me. Fortunately, the problem was only...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Ayala Corporation President and CEO Cezar “Bong” Consing attributed to the reopening of the economy and the gradually improving consumer and business confidence the conglomerate’s resurgent growth both topline and core net income. “Our largest publicly-listed...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Traditional milestones mark the observance of the longest Christmas holiday season in the Philippines. The first usually occurs on the first day of September when we start to hear the familiar songs of Jose Mari Chan. The second occurs during the first week of November...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye I last met Fernando Zobel de Ayala when he chaired the virtual meeting of BPI’s personnel and compensation committee. Soon after that, he and his brother Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (JAZA) even went in person to deliver their respective eulogies during the wake of...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye With the advent of Zoom and similar apps, staying connected with business associates, friends and relatives is no problem at all and I am beginning to enjoy it. Business also appreciates the advantages of virtual meetings. Had the last two annual stockholders meetings...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Once, concerned senior citizen Fidel V. Ramos, described himself as: “Retired, but not tired. Ex, but not excess.“ Indeed, the former President, at that time nearing 86, was very much around, taking advantage of every opportunity to exhort Filipinos to “care,...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye At 171 years and counting, Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) - the country’s and Asia’s first bank – continues to lead in the banking and financial industry. BPI is marking this milestone with an anniversary mass this morning to be officiated by the Most Rev....
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye They call it by different names. Here in the Philippines, it is called State of the Nation Address or SONA for short. In the US, it is State of the Union. In Great Britain, it is called Speech from the Throne or The Queen’s (of King’s) Speech. It is Prinsjesdag in...
