Category: Development

Do Filipinos want to continue to be known as the world’s servants?

April 29, 2018 benign0 22 Comments

The latest brouhaha surrounding the diplomatic row with Kuwait that erupted following the going “viral” of a video of a “rescue operation” instigated by Filipino diplomatic personnel there has attracted much debate. The “discussion” surrounding this circus focuses on the minutiae of the debacle the Philippine government finds itself in in the immediate aftermath. What…

Culture, Development, Economy, Society

Filipino dependence on overseas employment is what is at the root of the Kuwait “diplomatic crisis”

April 26, 2018 benign0 5 Comments

Back in the old days before social media there was a particularly “viral” email going around that enjoined humanity to “imagine a world without Overseas Filipino Workers”. The author of the email went on the wax poetic about such a world where there’d be catastrophic shortages in nurses, elderly care, welders, and all sorts of…

Development, Economy

Are The Villafuertes of Camsur Profiting from the Violation of Human Rights?

April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 P. Farol 4 Comments

Looking back at the heated confrontation between Congressman Lray Villafuerte and Congressman Rolando Andaya, I couldn’t help but think that Camarines Sur may be ground zero for hundreds if not thousands of cases of unreported human rights violations. The thought occurred to me as I was re-reading a post I had written about how Rappler…

Crime, Development

Why Is Cebu City Mayor Tommy Osmena Drooling Over A Cebu BRT?

April 10, 2018 P. Farol 9 Comments

Cebu City Mayor Tommy Osmena is playing the “Imperial Manila” card instead of trusting the decision of NEDA Secretary Ernesto Pernia and Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade to put on hold the implementation of the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit system. A statement from the DOTr says, “The DOTr believes that a review must be…

Development, Government

Thirty Years of Tommy Osmena, Same Old Cebu City Problems

April 9, 2018April 9, 2018 P. Farol 6 Comments

It is ironic that a so called rectification and change movement online would openly support Cebu City Mayor Tommy Osmena who represents anything but rectification and change for the better. Then again, this is the same group that preaches about the goodness of the parliamentary form of government and yet employs unparliamentary behavior when they…

Development, Government, Uncategorized

Filipinos have lost the right to be “shocked” about what happened to Boracay

March 22, 2018 benign0 13 Comments

Why all the chatter and private school “outrage” over Boracay all of a sudden? What is happening to the land of the annual chi-chi “#LABoracay” and all other hipster happenings that greet Imperial Manila denizens fleeing their parents’ Holy Week obligations have always been happening in the Philippines. It’s all part of Filipinos’ world-renowned Reverse…

Development, Environment

Filipinos have no choice but to pay more taxes

March 13, 2018 benign0 7 Comments

You can’t have your cake and eat it. If Filipinos want more and better-quality public services, they’re gonna have to cough up the dough and pay more taxes. The reality is that most of the infrastructure required to deliver the services they demand involves foreign technology and imported goods — which is why they cost…

Development, Economy, Money Talks

The Philippines needs FILIPINO investment more than foreign investment

March 6, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

News is getting around that contrary to what doomsayers in the Philippine Opposition (led by their obsolete thought leaders in the Liberal Party, a.k.a. the Yellowtards) are saying, investors remain bullish about the Philippines. Indeed, a recent report published by Business Insider ranked the Philippines Number One in a list of “the best countries to…

Culture, Development, Politics

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