The pandemic has tested many family enterprises. Some have thrived but many were compromised due to internal conflict, resisting technological change and globalization. Therefore family businesses, rooting themselves with a defined purpose and early succession planning, can prove to be clear models for success. “I’m the company and the company is me!” – anoft-repeated refrain …
Monthly Archives: September 2021
Remembering veteran journalist Melo Acuna and the comfort women
By Atty. Dennis Gorecho The recent death of veteran journalist Melo Acuna coincided with the anniversary of the disappearance of the “Lola” comfort woman statue two years ago, an issue close to his heart. “It’s sad wife and I got to be part of 12,067 new cases,” the message posted by Melo on his wall August …
Negrense jin Rosquillo gets NU scholarship
By Adrian Stewart Co Negrense jin Ceanne Kyle Rosquillo will soon be kicking his way in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) taekwondo competition after getting a scholarship from the National University (NU). In a Facebook post by his taekwondo stable Negros Taekwondo Union (NTU)-Tigers New Gen, it said that the Bago City, …
Hugnatan eyes PBA championship with Meralco
By Adrian Stewart Co Bacolodnon center Reynel Hugnatan has one wish before retiring from basketball—to win a Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) championship with the Meralco Bolts. According to the former Negros Slashers star, a PBA title with the Bolts was just one of his lacking pieces after winning championships with his previous teams Coca Cola …
‘Health frontliners, vaccinees are modern-day heroes’
The Bacolod City government executives called health frontliners and Bacolodnons, who already got their anti-COVID jabs, as “modern-day heroes” in the face of the pandemic, at the joint launching on Monday, August 30, of the 24/7 vaccination center and the third mobile vaccination unit or, the VAX-i, at the Jollibee branch along Gatuslao-Burgos Streets. The …
3 Delta cases in NegOcc test negative following re-swab
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The three patients who have been infected with the Delta variant of COVID-19 in Negros Occidental have tested negative for the virus following a re-swab ordered by the provincial government. Provincial Administrator Atty. Rayfrando Diaz said he has received the test results of the patients – 69-year-old woman from Valladolid, …
NegOcc OKs granular lockdown replacing community quarantine
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The provincial government of Negros Occidental backs a proposal being pushed before the National Inter-Agency Task Force (NIATF) to give power for local government units (LGUs) to declare their own quarantine classification and enforce their own granular lockdowns. Provincial Administrator Atty. Rayfrando Diaz yesterday said he and Governor Eugenio Jose …