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Three days in ICU
by Cito Beltran - May 23, 2025 - 12:00am
Friends were surprised to learn that I spent three days at the Intensive Care Unit of the Rizal Medical Center. To be honest, I was not planning on it either, but when the doctors at the ER determined I had AFib...
It’s good to be back
by Cito Beltran - May 21, 2025 - 12:00am
It’s good to be back and thankfully not from the grave.
Midterm examinations
by Cito Beltran - May 14, 2025 - 12:00am
After conducting the midterm elections last Monday and reading the President’s statement “We must listen to our critics.” I humbly suggest to President Bongbong Marcos Jr. to conduct what I call...
Man over God
by Cito Beltran - May 12, 2025 - 12:00am
I used the title “Man over God” for today’s column as a way of introducing to you how many nations, even “the Chosen nation of God,” messed up by deciding to have a monarchy or a king...
Exemption deception
by Cito Beltran - May 9, 2025 - 12:00am
Every time I attend an event that requires driving, I am bombarded with complaints about the 24/7 traffic and there being too many cars. As I write this column, I am “sitting out” or opting...
Taking charge with compassion and transparency
by Cito Beltran - May 7, 2025 - 12:00am
When crisis and tragedy strike, there is often a tendency to panic, assign blame or, in some cases, run for cover. Other companies send in a team of external crisis managers to handle the situation, often using a...
Dis-ease of doing business
by Cito Beltran - May 5, 2025 - 12:00am
After getting his trial balloon to increase capital gains, donor and estate taxes shot down, the VAT Man Ralph Recto quickly and wisely raised the white flag.
Crime dis-solving
by Cito Beltran - May 2, 2025 - 12:00am
Teresita Ang See has always been a voice for reason, cooperation and safeguarding peace and order.
Taxes: Uglier the second time around
by Cito Beltran - April 30, 2025 - 12:00am
Secretary of Finance Ralph “The VAT” Recto or Mr. E-Vat himself is at it again. After getting away with pushing and sponsoring the value-added tax law in 2005, he is now meddling with the intentions of...
No takers no money
by Cito Beltran - April 28, 2025 - 12:00am
Once again, a reader reached out to give me a scoop regarding an ongoing PPP or public-private partnership project between realty developer DRK and the NKTI or the National Kidney Transplant Institute.
Sign up, just in case
by Cito Beltran - April 25, 2025 - 12:00am
After reading my column “Unholy week to die,” one of our regular readers, “Lily,” shared a similar story from the past:
An unholy week to die
by Cito Beltran - April 23, 2025 - 12:00am
Death in the family by itself is painful, but not as difficult and complicated as when a loved one dies during the Holy Week.
Road killed
by Cito Beltran - April 21, 2025 - 12:00am
After years and so much effort made to promote “road safety,” it feels like things have become worse than before.
Land-grabbed shorelines
by Cito Beltran - April 16, 2025 - 12:00am
Why is it that most of the public beaches or shorelines in the Philippines, particularly along popular tourist destinations, are no longer accessible to ordinary Filipinos? Some are either “privately owned”...
Mission improbable
by Cito Beltran - April 14, 2025 - 12:00am
Observers on both sides of the Duterte surrender to the ICC would have us believe that the ongoing Senate inquiry headed by Senator Imee Marcos is “too little too late.” The pro-FPRRD folks feel it’s...
Lip service vs real medicine
by Cito Beltran - April 11, 2025 - 12:00am
When it became obvious that there would be no stopping the hearings and Supreme Court inquiry regarding the PhilHealth fund transfers, President Bongbong Marcos issued statements calling his appointees to make sure...
Coerced, compelled borrowing
by Cito Beltran - April 9, 2025 - 12:00am
Now – or the next 30 days – is the “season” when companies or businesses are best advised to put out or place their full-size SUVs, pick-up trucks, vans, helicopters and executive jets for...
Lowland jitters– highland grab
by Cito Beltran - April 7, 2025 - 12:00am
A number of people are experiencing Lowland Jitters because of the ongoing subway project for Metro Manila, specifically those residing in skyscrapers and condominiums located near the path of the subway projec...
Benjie Magalong, version 3
by Cito Beltran - April 4, 2025 - 12:00am
After telling me about those over-priced cat’s eyes and roller ball barriers on our highways last February, Mayor Benjie Magalong told me last Wednesday about the new items on the list of overpriced highway...
Lessons from a Bangkok quake survivor
by Cito Beltran - April 2, 2025 - 12:00am
One of our readers, Loreann Villanueva, is a Bangkok earthquake survivor, so I asked her to share her experience and suggestions to help prepare Metro Manila for the Big One.
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