COVER STORY

A NATION’S GREATNESS DEFINED: SOVEREIGNTY, DEMOCRACY, EQUALITY

IN ITS PREAMBLE, THE 1973 BASIC LAW DECLARES RIGHTLY THAT THE FILIPINO PEOPLE ARE SOVEREIGN, A REFERENCE TO THE 1935 CONSTITUTION BEING COLONIAL IN CHARACTER. “BLESSINGS OF INDEPENDENCE” BECAME “BLESSINGS OF DEMOCRACY”. “UNDER A RÉGIME […]

COVER STORY

THE GREATNESS OF PHILIPPINE BANKS

The pandemic has become a rare opportunity for banks to be good, and to upscale from being good to being simply great.   Since banks are an invention of man, the pandemic is also an opportunity […]

COVER STORY

MANKIND’S FAILURE

A rather ponderously named Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR or simply the Panel) of the World Health Organization has called COVID-19 the 21st century’s Chernobyl moment—“not because a disease outbreak is like […]

Spotlight

THE LORDS IN THE RING

In May next year, 50 million Filipinos will elect the next president of the Philippines.   The candidates to succeed Rodrigo Roa Duterte are not exactly the best of the Filipino race.  And judging by the […]