THERE is a lot of OFW interest in the Personal Equity and Retirement Account (Pera) Act of 2008.

EVERYTHING seemed Greek to me. Signs were in letters unfamiliar. Speech was in sounds my ears were not accustomed to. But, all that was not surprising. After all, I was in Greece.

LAST week, I wrote about the necessity for Filipino children to develop the habit of saving — a habit that is presently being nurtured by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’s Financial Education Prog

THE case of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, et al vs Hon. Nina G. Antonio-Valenzuela, et al, G.R. No.

RESPONDING to a disturbing survey indicating that only less than five percent of Filipino youngsters regularly save money, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas launched its Financial Education Program for

IT SEEMED no more than a gentle, though nevertheless firm reminder that the Supreme Court, early last month, gave to the courts below:

AN ANONYMOUS author once wrote: “A good teacher is like a candle which consumes itself to light the way for others.”

IT IS accepted by both proponents and opponents of the Wawa Dam as an alternative (or supplementary) source of raw water for Metro Manila and environs that the dam can deliver 50 million liters per da

THE recent launching of the Credit Surety Fund and the relaunching of the Economic and Financial Literacy Program of the BSP in Cebu City provided me the long-delayed opportunity to reconnect with two

IT WAS probably inevitable that, after the initial proponent of the rehabilitation of Wawa Dam had demonstrated the logic of his project, crab mentality would rear its ugly head.

I AM privileged to have visited recently two of Visayas’ entrepreneurial centers – Cebu City and Negros Occidental – in connection with the expansion of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ microf

MANILA, Luzon. The city of the Bearer of authority. Home of the divas, the songbirds, the comedians, the veteran and aspiring movie stars. The land of opportunities.

BEFORE Angat, there was Wawa. Built by the Americans in 1908, the Wawa Dam, located in Montalban, Rizal, at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains, supplied the needs of Metro Manila up 1968.

AT THE sidelines of the joint IMF-World Bank Annual meeting held in Istanbul last week, I had the chance to renew my acquaintance with our Ambassador to Turkey, Pete Chan.

IT IS not clear to me why the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System is enamored, if not fixated or obsessed, with the Laiban Dam project.