GAMES and Amusements Board (GAB) chairman Abraham "Baham" Mitra goes on board as the lone special guest in the webcast edition of the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Forum on Tuesday. Foremost to be discussed by Mitra is the recent resolution jointly issued by GAB and the Philippine...
Poor Filipino families have to contend living in a 6.4 square meter space, the size of a billiard table, while the wealthy comfortably stay in their 38.5 square meter homes. Economist-Congressman Stella Luz Quimbo (Photo credit: https://www.bdo.com.ph/) This was stressed by Economist-Congressman...
Coconut farmers are now the poorest people in the agriculture sector, much poorer than when they were 30 years ago. This was the assessment of Danny Carranza, a coconut farmer and member the Kilusan Para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo at Katarungang Panlipunan (Katarungan). (MB FILE, Keith...
DA readies cash assistance to farmers The farm-gate price of palay continues to drop during the fourth week of September, with prices in some areas still below the breakeven price farmers had spent for the last planting season. The good news is that the Department of Agriculture (DA) was recently...
Palay prices had sunk to as low as P12 per kilogram (/kg) in some areas in the country during the third week of September, which means some farmers barely made money during this harvest season. This, while the Department of Agriculture (DA) claimed that buying prices of palay in the country's top...
Willie Marcial (PBA Images) PBA Commissioner Willie Marcial talks straight from the Clark Freeport bubble in Pampanga when he appears as special guest of the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) webcast Forum this Tuesday (Oct. 13). Marcial is expected to discuss the successful return of the...
The Samahang Kickboxing ng Pilipinas (SKP) will stage the online edition of the Kickboxing Musical Form National Championships next month. SKP secretary general Atty Wharton Chan said the tournament hopes to revive the sport in the middle of the pandemic where most actual competitions have been put...
The rate of increase in consumer prices softened to a four-month low in September due to cheaper food items, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed on Tuesday. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The country’s headline inflation ticked in at 2.3 percent last month, slower compared...
Ariana Dormitorio, the undisputed queen of Philippine mountain bike racing (Photo from Ariana Dormitorio's Facebook page) PhilCycling chief Bambol Tolentino is pulling all the resources available for mountain biker Ariana Dormitorio to clinch a slot in next year’s Tokyo Olympics. “Pasasalihin...
Both the farmgate and retail prices of the country’s main staple food palay and corn are on a downtrend, which is bad news for farmers but good news for consumers. Latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that farmgate price of palay fell further during the first week of...
Kiefer Ravena (PSA Images) It's going to be an all-basketball discussion in the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) online Forum as MILO-BEST Center and the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) serve as the special guests this Tuesday. MILO Ambassador and BEST Center graduate Kiefer...
Foreign investment approvals fell by more than three-fifths in the second-quarter this year after several areas in the country implemented large scale movement restriction to curb the spread of coronavirus disease. Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that total approved...
