OPINION

For SMEs in particular, BPI offered flexible business solutions that are designed to help owners sustain their businesses during these challenging times. Their financial products—such as business loans—paved the way for small and medium-sized businesses to adjust to the needs of the market and the needs of their enterprises for cash flow.  Small and Medium-sized …

We have to learn how to suffer with the others, how to be compassionate, how to make as our own the conditions of the others out of the love of God and souls. Christ himself did all these. But to attain these qualities, we have learn how to have dialogue, first with God and then …

I want to continue what McNamara wrote in his book, “Founder’s Syndrome: How Corporations Suffer and Can Recover,” on the common problems experienced by organizations as a result of the “founder’s syndrome.” Many founders cannot make this transition. As a result, the organization remains managed, not in a manner that provides reliable services to customers, …

Blessed Alvaro del Portillo was the first successor and close collaborator of Opus Dei founder, St. Josemaria Escriva. Blessed Alvaro was born on March 11, 1914 and died on March 23, 1994. He was an engineer before he became a priest. He met the Opus Dei founder in the 30s, before the Spanish civil war, …

Marine litter poses threats to human health, food security, economy and environment, including degradation of marine and coastal habitats, ecosystems and biodiversity.   By Dennis R. Gorecho The video of a marine biologist removing a plastic straw stuck in a sea turtle’s nose in August 2015 catalyzed a larger movement to eliminate single-use plastics, like …

When we are suddenly thrown into strange, unfamiliar and difficult situations, the true face of the different statuses we have come to the fore. Crises are like reagents that expose our inner self and true identity. Are we a God-believer or not? Are we a practical man or just a theoretical one? Are we brave …

During the public hearing on the 2022 budgets of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and its attached agencies, the Senate was updated on the alarming congestion rate of our jails and penal institutions. For one, the New Bilibid Prison (NBP), our national penitentiary, has a congestion rate of 344%. In exact figures, this means that …

Perceptions of speech training as oral health care were higher among speech therapists than among the other professionals. It indicates that health care workers might tend to perceive skills or treatments that they usually perform as ones which should be performed as part of oral health care. For a long time, dentistry has been independent …

There are, of course, good days and bad days insofar as our prayer life is concerned. We should not make a big fuss over it. What we have to do is just to move on and to continue exerting effort to pray even if the feelings are not there, even if we feel dry and …

“Kung hindi kayo makikinig at di kayo susunod sa utos ng Diyos… padadalhan Niya kayo ng… nakakasunog na tag-init… ang langit sa inyong ulunan ay magbabaga na tila hurno, ang lupang inyong tinutungtungan ay magiging sintigas ng bakal.” – Deuteronomio 28:22-23, Ang Tanging Daan Bibliya   COP26, O PULONG SA UNITED KINGDOM, BIGO NA NAMAN …