For quite a while, there has been so much hullaballoo, even reaching the level of a national debate, on spending P500 for a Noche Buena meal. The furor was triggered by price estimates on how much a ...

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With Christmas Day less than three weeks away, shoppers in Pangasinan have started buying ingredients for their Noche Buena and Media Noche meals as prices of at least 95 items went up. Caragay from ...

Trade Secretary Maria Cristina Aldeguer-Roque drew unnecessary flak last week when she made the tone-deaf suggestion that a Filipino family could have a “noche buena” meal for just P500, based on the ...

SANTA’S BUDGET BLUES—Market vendor Glenda Eron, 46, shows a P520 Noche Buena set at Commonwealth Market, Quezon City, on December 1, 2025. While the DTI’s P500 guideline is meant for a small household ...