Co-ops and credit unions to advance Cuba’s economic development

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 07/10/2017

These past weeks, my inbox had been inundated with warm congratulatory messages from credit union and co-op leaders and professionals across the Caribbean and North America forwarded to the newly elected board and executive team of the…

Crime classic

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 06/26/2017

While taking some time off in the state of New York, I have grown to like watching the Investigation Discovery (ID) network which features series of real crime stories presented in documentary form. Plots of infidelities, romance…

Canada’s development education off to auspicious start

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 06/19/2017

Astoria, New York — When emcee David Marquez, manager of Trinidad and Tobago’s COPOS Credit Union Co-operative Society, announced my name as the participant who took multiple plane rides to attend the international program for credit union…

Lone wolf in the Resorts World Manila attack

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 06/05/2017

New York — I happen to pass by the Big Apple on my way to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for an international co-op management education program when I heard about the terror attack in Resorts World Manila.…

Sir Bobby’s legacy

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 05/22/2017

Friday last week, I had the privilege of attending the “Convergence Meeting of Mega Cebu Leaders,” an annual event aimed to update stakeholders about ongoing projects and initiatives spearheaded by the Metro Cebu Development and Coordinating Board…

Congress in Catch 22 situation

Editorial, Malou Guanzon Apalisok 05/15/2017

It was supposed to be a process that would just go through the motions given the current administration’s grip on the majority, but when the House committee on justice tackled the impeachment complaint filed by Magdalo Partylist…

Baclaran Part II

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 05/09/2017

At the intimate dinner hosted by charity worker and hotelier, Norma Borromeo Thursday last week at the Montebello Garden Hotel, the conversation was still about the recently concluded Icon Pilgrimage Congress held in Baclaran, Parañaque City. Norma…

Baclaran

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 05/01/2017

Mention Baclaran and the first thing that comes to your mind is the popular devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title Our Mother of Perpetual Help (OMPH) whose shrine in Baclaran, Paranaque City, is a…

Pres’l assistant to the Visayas goes cooperative

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 04/10/2017

In his message before members of Cebu NewsCoop during its 20th Annual General Assembly, Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Michael “Mike” Dino showed a keen interest in the workings of cooperatives. Lifting a clip from an archived…

Speaker Alvarez, roiling in the deep

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 04/03/2017

Less than a year after assuming the top position in the House of Representatives, Davao del Norte first district Congressman and PDP Laban Secretary General Pantaleon “Bebot” Alvarez finds himself in a firestorm of his own making.…

Intense media scrutiny over David Lim Jr.

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 03/27/2017

Some quarters are quite upset by the supposed media feeding frenzy that has descended on the road rage shooting incident, with some people calling it unfair or even un-Christian. But when the suspect is a scion of…

Cebu’s high drug rate

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 03/13/2017

At the Philippine Councilors’ League (PCL) 10th National Congress held in Pasay City last week came the bombshell that recognized Cebu with the highest rate of drug abuse throughout the country, with about 60 to 70 percent,…

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