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‘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:

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,...

NKTI responds

by Cito Beltran - June 2, 2025 - 12:00am

Clarificatory statement on the article written by Mr. Cito Beltran about the NKTI Medical Arts Building (MAB) project (CTalk, The STAR, published on April 28, 2025)

Something positive, for a change

by Cito Beltran - May 30, 2025 - 12:00am

For the longest time, the Filipino default is to wail about how other countries have left us behind, how this country and that country in ASEAN has bypassed the Philippines in terms of economics, education, sports,...

Not a movie, not a play

by Cito Beltran - May 28, 2025 - 12:00am

All the talk about the so-called Cabinet reshuffle is about to become a thing of the past because the so-called courtesy resignations look and sound more like “a game of musical chairs,” as columnist...

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