We beg to differ.
The rash of SEA Games fails could have been addressed better. Thing is, I thought the cauldron was the last issue against the SEA Games but I was surprised that more came to light and still more will come. For some reason, I keep hearing Vice Ganda’s voice whenever I re-read Phisgoc chair and House…
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Things have been moving too fast in Philippine politics lately that it’s hard to keep up. I have been promising myself I would write about current Vice President Leonor “Leni” Robredo’s relentless attacks on the government – a government she is a part of, but before I had a chance to do it, President Rodrigo…
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Did we really expect a seamless, swimmingly-hosted Southeast Asian Games (SEAG)? This is, after all, the Philippines where nothing works. Filipinos cannot organise their way out of a paper bag and this is reflected in just about every failed system and ways of working borrowed from former colonial masters and sloppily-applied to their setting. It…
As an alumnus of the Ateneo, I can’t help but wonder about what’s really going on in the heads of the members of what is arguably the most elite academic community in the Philippines. Indeed, the Ateneo is so elite that even Ateneans aspire to de-elitisize themselves as soon as they step out of its…
My sports geek friends are eagerly awaiting the 30th Sea Games and they are paying no mind at all to the horrendous traffic it’ll create all over Metro Manila as well as in the various venues outside of NCR. Right in the middle of recalling various sports statistics and some esoteric bits of sports lore,…
Having taken the job of co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), “vice president” Leni Robredo has vowed to “get the facts straight” on the actual situation of the Philippine Government’s on-going “War on Drugs”. Considering that this initiative is being criticised for what many describe as its unnecessarily “bloody” nature, part of…
Following news that Philippine “vice president” Leni Robredo had been appointed to lead the government’s War on Drugs, a certain Phelim Kine, who, according to his Twitter bio, is “Director of Research and Investigation at Physicians for Human Rights” is calling for the “arrest” of President Rodrigo Duterte. Dear VP @lenirobredo – my bags are…
Angkas dupes Tugade Building up the country’s transport infrastructures is a challenge that will test the limits of even a titan technocrat. Transport secretary Art Tugade is taking on this Herculean task at the age of 73 and while I believe stories of his abundance of energy at a late age, it seems that Singaporean…
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