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Cito Beltran
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Concert-ed or directed
by Cito Beltran - July 18, 2025 - 12:00am
There is a concerted effort to justify and convince legislators, media and the public that there are benefits to Online gambling.
Bear fruit or get pruned
by Cito Beltran - July 16, 2025 - 12:00am
The year was 1985, the site was a 350-acre property development in a very up-market area called Fairfield, Connecticut.
‘Pursuit of justice’ – a PR windfall
by Cito Beltran - July 14, 2025 - 12:00am
After three long years of lackluster performances, the PBBM administration may have found their sweet spot and did not even realize it until of late.
Shut down the biggest gambling lord
by Cito Beltran - July 11, 2025 - 12:00am
There has been so much talk about ending or regulating online gambling alongside the very disturbing details that have come out regarding the 34 missing sabungeros that might actually go up to 100-plus.
No slashes, double Xs or double 0s
by Cito Beltran - July 9, 2025 - 12:00am
Only Baby Boomers might have a clue what today’s column title is about. Where exactly are you prohibited from using slashes, XX, or 00? The practice goes back to a time when people generally wrote checks as...
Unapologetic
by Cito Beltran - July 7, 2025 - 12:00am
After not seeing each other for several months, my friend Pastor Ferdie “The Running Pastor” Cabiling called to invite me for breakfast on a Thursday morning.
How to catch a‘Big Fish’
by Cito Beltran - July 4, 2025 - 12:00am
Growing up in a time when ponds, creeks and canals were still clean, natural and somehow connected, one thing I learned was how to catch fish.
Company-made floods
by Cito Beltran - July 2, 2025 - 12:00am
The hum of a front loader disrupted our quiet morning in Lipa. As I followed the noise, I found a front loader next door scraping off grass, weeds and vegetation on a 62-hectare new development.
Chance or calling?
by Cito Beltran - June 30, 2025 - 12:00am
I am on my third Men’s Discipleship Group where I facilitate a group of 10 to 15 men in studying the Bible as well as other teaching material meant to help men navigate life, relationships, family, finances...
Lower your expectations
by Cito Beltran - June 27, 2025 - 12:00am
If, like me, you actually hoped, maybe even believed, that President Bongbong Marcos was capable of initiating change or creating results by sheer political will, it only proves that you are an optimist. But other...
No ‘sleeping beauties’ allowed
by Cito Beltran - June 25, 2025 - 12:00am
People will frown at you; they will mock you and will often tell you go to bed earlier and not sleep on the job.
The P1.4-billion question
by Cito Beltran - June 23, 2025 - 12:00am
Whatever happened to the offer of Bob Sobrepeña-CJHDevCo to “donate” the P1.4 billion due to them from the BCDA in exchange for the government to respect the “third party rights” of...
Reward – a bounty for scammers
by Cito Beltran - June 20, 2025 - 12:00am
Now more than ever before have I seen so many fake or scam ads on META/Facebook that were AI-generated faces and voices of the country’s top businessmen, as well as the President, being used to fool people...
Presence over response
by Cito Beltran - June 18, 2025 - 12:00am
We grew up being taught that “prevention is better than cure.” Unfortunately, in a world where “Reaction” is viewed as “Action,” those words of wisdom have all been forgotten...
More reason to pray
by Cito Beltran - June 16, 2025 - 12:00am
Just how concerned are you about what has happened in Iran and Israel?
The lady from Ukraine
by Cito Beltran - June 13, 2025 - 12:00am
I was certainly intrigued by the invitation to meet up and have coffee somewhere in Makati.
Prioritize what helps, not what divides
by Cito Beltran - June 11, 2025 - 12:00am
The front pages of the past few days have been peppered with articles about the “agad-agad” impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.
Catastrophic hospitalization
by Cito Beltran - June 9, 2025 - 12:00am
After reading about  my three days in the ICU, a good friend sent me this email to share her family’s catastrophic experience with a private hospital:
If you can’t beat them, then join them!
by Cito Beltran - June 6, 2025 - 12:00am
While going for my post confinement check-up at the Rizal Medical Center, I learned that my former colleague turned senator Raffy Tulfo did an ocular visit of RMC last May 30 in order to personally see the operations,...
Bravo Gibo!
by Cito Beltran - June 4, 2025 - 12:00am
The last time I wrote about Defense Secretary Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro, I was suggesting that the administration party led by PBBM would do better considering “Gibo” Teodoro, who has more qualifications,...
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