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All lovers of Philippine literature need not continue to wonder whatever has happened to the yearly National Book Awards, a collaborative endeavor between the Manila Critics Circle and the National Book Development Board.

In the world of business, there was a growing awareness that a business should look beyond profit, long deemed their ultimate responsibility to the owners and stockholders of the business.

According to Financial Times writer Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in his article “The war on woke capitalism” in the paper’s May 29, 2022 Weekend issue, “Nearly half a century after the economist (i.e. Klaus Shwab) launched his Swiss gatherings for world leaders, executive and financiers, his belief that businesses should serve all their constituents equally seemed to have prevailed over the old notion that companies exist only to make profits for their owners.”

Now that the elections are finally over, the Robredo supporters have the following options.

McCaila Thompson and Trio Ladd will attend a conference in Washington D.C. in July, joined by six other students from schools in Canton and Lima.

News items for the local area

Marterius Boyd, an eighth-grade student at Memphis Business Academy Middle School, and Nikima Robertson, an eighth-grade student at A. Maceo Walker Middle School, were selected as national ambassadors to represent Memphis in a national Do the Write Thing celebration in Washington, D.C.

It seems timely that as Women’s Month ends and Earth Day on April 22 beckons, the lives of two women pioneers and their lifelong advocacies to Planet Earth and the environment are recognized. They are neither the superstars nor the household names that they should be, unfortunately.

BORN IN Clapham, the son of Jamaican parents, Tony Fairweather has long had a love affair with writing, books, authors and literature.

A national program aimed at helping middle school students in Ohio through writing is already making an impact.