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1 day ago | 
philstar.com | Marianne Go
I admit that I did not have high hopes that the voting results of Monday’s elections would differ much from the survey results that showed a number of candidates from the entertainment industry and sports field likely to be elected to the top 12 spots in the senatorial slate. In fact, I was just determined to vote for candidates that I felt would really bring some substance to the chamber even though I was not confident that my vote would matter.
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3 days ago | 
philstar.com | Marianne Go
Today is election day for us Filipinos as we choose our new or reelect our local government officials, our representatives in the House and half or 12 senators in the Senate. As with all our previous elections, the advice is always to vote wisely. But this time around perhaps we should follow the example of the thought process of the 133 cardinals in choosing Pope Leo XIV.
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6 days ago | 
philstar.com | Marianne Go
This Sunday, most of us will be observing Mother’s Day, the one special day that we honor the woman who gave us life while risking her own life for nine long months. If she is healthy, the child will most likely turn out physically and mentally well-developed. If she is not healthy, the child’s physical and mental health may be compromised as they grow.
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1 week ago | 
philstar.com | Marianne Go
This was the urgent advice of Rafaelita Aldaba, who recently retired from the Department of Trade and Industry as undersecretary for competition and innovation, and who is now a strategic advisor for the Department of Education and an emeritus researcher for the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, or PIDS.
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1 week ago | 
philstar.com | Marianne Go
A loving husband to Lydia, his wife of 66 years, father to four children – Stephanie, John, Alan and Arbel (deceased), a grandfather to 11 grandchildren, and even a great-grandfather to five grandkids, Edgardo Espiritu, or EBE, peacefully passed away last April 28 in Bradbury, California, just 40 days short of what would have been his 90th birthday on June 7.
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1 week ago | 
philstar.com | Marianne Go
Amory Gethin, an economist at the World Bank’s development research group, believes that education policy should continue to be at the center of global poverty reduction. In a feature article of the F&D Magazine of the International Monetary Fund, Gethin wrote that the world economy has experienced a remarkable transformation over the past four decades, with global GDP per capita doubling in real terms, driven by the rise of China and India, and by significant growth elsewhere.
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2 weeks ago | 
philstar.com | Marianne Go
My early coverage of the Aboitiz Group was in the early 1980s as a trade/energy reporter. At that time, the Aboitiz family’s core business was in shipping through the Aboitiz Shipping Co. and power in the Visayas region through the Visayan Electric Company (VECO) and in Mindanao through the Davao Light and Power Co. I, thus, had the opportunity to visit Cebu and Davao to see the group’s various power projects at that time.
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2 weeks ago | 
philstar.com | Marianne Go
Filipinos always seem to have a unique way of coping with economic difficulties, so much so that it is often hard to tell if the economy is tanking, especially if you live in the bubble of centric Metro Manila. According to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey conducted from April 11 to 15, a substantial 15.5 million Filipino families consider themselves poor. As such, according to the SWS survey, the percentage of Filipinos who rate themselves as poor is now at its highest at 55 percent.
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2 weeks ago | 
philstar.com | Marianne Go
For us Filipinos, rice is part of our daily staple, mainly as our main source of carbohydrates that we accompany with a variety of viands. Occasionally, we also make it into snacks such as puto or kakanin – different forms of rice cakes and sweets. However, unlike some of our neighbors, we have never used rice to make an alcoholic drink.
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3 weeks ago | 
philstar.com | Marianne Go
(Conclusion)Camille Villar is well prepared to fill the Senate post that her mother, Cynthia Villar, is vacating this year. Her mother, she admits, has left instructions for her to follow if and when she gets the official mandate following the May 12 local election. First and foremost of Senator Cynthia’s advocacies that Camille will have to follow up on involves the agricultural sector, even as Camille also has her own progressive views about improving agricultural education.
