REFLECTIONS TODAY The man had been ill for 38 years. When Jesus asks him if he wants to be well, he begins to tell Jesus about his situation — he has no one to put him into the pool when the water is stirred up and that someone else gets into the water ahead of him. The stirred-up water is...
ONE FOR THE ROAD Some might say that Lexus has arrived a little late to the EV party, especially considering Toyota’s global dominance and unrivaled experience with hybrid technology. But for Lexus, they have an unspoken philosophy about these things — better late than mediocre. See at Lexus...
Benchmark yields for short-term loans rose, forcing the Bureau of the Treasury to borrow less than programmed. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Mach. 20, the national government raised P10.636 billion, below the P15 billion plan for the week. The 91-day Treasury bill rate...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Today we celebrate the Solemnity of St. Joseph, the Spouse of the Virgin Mary. In the Gospel of Matthew, the very first description of Joseph is that he is the husband of Mary. Being the husband of Mary is connected to another description of Joseph as a “righteous man”...
FROM THE MARGINS The government is ramping up measures to curb inflation due to the rise in food prices resulting from shortfalls in agricultural supply. A high-level Inter-Agency Committee is being set up to monitor agricultural production, food prices, supply, and importation. This, hopefully,...
#MINDANAO GENERAL SANTOS CITY –Arriving at this bustling city of almost 700,000 people for the first time since 2019, I sensed that things are not only really getting back to normal, but actually looking up. Driving down the highway from Davao to General Santos (Gensan) brings one first to Digos...
With President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. and Defense Secretary Carlito Galvez, Jr. as witnesses, the director-general of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) and the president of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) signed in Malacañang Palace last week a...
She had been a long-forgotten dream, only subsisting in faint memories of a ‘90s family road trip. Today, her allure grows more than ever, thanks to the monuments and men (and women) who have shaped her. More than 20 years after I first visited Ilocos Norte, I returned with a lens of naturalism...
The University of the Philippines (UP) community welcomed Quezon City Regional Trial Court's decision to dismiss the charges filed by the Social Security System (SSS) against UP Professor Melania Flores. This was after the state-run pension fund executed an affidavit of desistance, said the Congress...
Food waste and hunger are problems around the world, including the Philippines. A Food Consumption Survey of the Department of Science and Technology–Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) states: 1,717 metric tons of food are wasted every day in the Philippines. Every Filipino wastes...
REFLECTIONS TODAY John 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38 [or 9:1-41] As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth. He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes, and said to him, “Go wash in the Pool of Siloam” — which means Sent. — So he went and washed,...
PEACE MAKER Former Iranian Vice President Hassan Ghafouri Fard, a dear friend and a staunch stalwart in political party and parliamentary diplomacy passed away a few days ago in Tehran. He was 79. Vice President Ghafouri Fard was a founding member of ICAPP, the International Conference of Asian...
