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The GCG at a glance

With the creation of the Governance Commission for Government-owned or -Controlled Corporations (GCG), there is now an agency that centrally and directly monitors GOCCs, ensuring their viability and operational efficiency. The GCG is mandated to rationalize the operations of these GOCCs to promote efficient...

Batting for a G.R.E.A.T. GCG

Good governance, Rightsizing, Efficiency, Accountability and Transparency After serving as Associate Justice of the Sandiganbayan for 14 years, retired Justice Alex L. Quiroz availed of early retirement in August 2022.     But the new administration had other plans for him. Quiroz was appointed that same...

Getting to know the GCG

Created on June 6, 2011 under Republic Act (RA) 10149, also known as the “GOCC Governance Act of 2011,” the GCG serves as the central policy-making and regulatory body mandated to safeguard the State’s ownership rights of GOCCs. Essentially, the GCG ensures that the...

You can still catch the May 2023 Issue of the Philippines Graphic!

Available at Shopee and Lazada, Philippines Graphic 2023 featuring: SM Foundation: 40 Years of People Helping People o   SM scholars & the pursuit of happiness o   Portrait of an SM Foundation scholar o   Edifices of Hope: SM Foundation school buildings o   Sinag Schools o   SMFI Livelihood & Outreach programs PLUS! NICK...

Labor group endorses P150 Legislated Wage Proposal; calls for prompt action from other regional wage boards

The Federation of Free Workers (FFW) Lauds the First Hearing on Wage Increase in the National Capital Region; Calls for Prompt Action from Other RTWPB Regions and Endorses P150 Legislative Proposal The Federation of Free Workers (FFW) welcomes the first hearing on wage increase...

Uplifting lives and communities for positive change

SMFI Livelihood & Outreach Programs It started as a “mall-based” project in 1996. It grew from the expressed wish of people to donate to the many, already on-going projects of SM Foundation, the SM group’s corporate social responsibility arm. Today, the SMFI Livelihood & Outreach...

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In dubious battle: Organized labor in the time of COVID-19

TOP PHOTO: Building workers. A young man, hoists a bucket of cement up during the rebuilding, renovation, of a building in Tabuk on the...

The Virgin

In 1952, "The Virgin," written by Kerima Polotan, won first prize in the Philippines Free Press Literary Contest and in the Carlos Palanca Awards. He...

The colors of hope

On the morning of Apr. 19, on that cramped space by the porch where I comb the internet daily for news on the COVID-19...

No slave: OFWs fight back

Long before President Rodrigo Duterte expressed outrage over the violent death of Filipina domestic worker Joanna Daniela Demafelis in Kuwait, this middle east nation...