‘Editorial’ Archives
Child-unfriendly
From the global perspective, the trend has been overly protective of children’s rights and welfare, with our country likewise pursuing it. Plenty of laws had been passed ensuring that children are properly attended to, their rights upheld at all times, their future secured through education and health care. But certain local practices remain abusive and unfriendly to children. And no one even seems to bother trying to correct these. Just because they have been traditionally done, and are [...]
Exorcising & cleansing Tacloban
Tacloban has greatly improved. The whole city has really changed, buildings have grown bigger, and the population has drastically increased, people are more empowered, businesses and economic activities have become brisk and vigorous. Tacloban today is a far cry from what it was when it became a city in 1953. Even the ensuing years, streets were unpaved and dirt roads were common. The houses and buildings were small, ordinary and modest. Taclobanons’ lives were simple then. To come to [...]
Bet
Roars against the undying social ill that is gambling had again hugged the headlines. Antigambling crusaders led by Bishop Oscar Cruz and other whistleblowers are out with allegations of huge bribes from gambling lords getting into the pockets of high ranking officials of the Aquino administration. These are serious allegations that deserve prompt decisive action for P-Noy to prove that he means business with his advocacy to walk the straight path. Embarking from a reign of crookedness, the [...]
Legalize jueteng?
In a bid to completely eradicate corruption engendered by “jueteng,” former president Estrada proposed for its legalization as the only solution to stop the endless finger-pointing between officials of local government units (LGUs) and law-enforcement agents, particularly the members of the Philippine National Police (PNP). The former president said that by legalizing “jueteng” the government could bring in at least a minimum of P5 billion to the national treasury every month. This [...]
Planning and working without let-up
The City of Tacloban has no existing drainage plan which would set the parameters of the local government’s concern and program wit regards to this perennial headache. The City’s drainage masterplan so far recalled by a key official of the city government was that drafted during the tenure of then Mayor Ildefonso Cinco way back the 1950’s but was put to shelf until a new one was drafted in the later years but not at all implemented. This in a nutshell provides the impression why the [...]
Congested old road
South-bound passenger vehicles, disallowed from entering the city through Real St. but via the Old Road Sagkahan all the way to Magallanes St., are finding it hard to get through the narrow passage at the congested wet market or talipapa there. This happens most particularly in the mornings of weekdays, in time when most of the passengers are reporting for work, or to various educational institutions in the city. At these early hours, they are rushing to the city so as not to be late in [...]
Intelligence funds and other types of bonuses of GOCCs immoral
Government owned and controlled corporations are supposed to be sources of revenues for the government. They are supposed to generate income for the corporation and should remit its government shares as stipulated in their charters. Some of them, if not most of them from start of operations are provided budget from the national government. But after years and years of operations but if they are still dependent of government for their operations then there could be something wrong with such GOCC [...]
Peace talks?
In spite of its offensive against the government, the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (CPP/NPA) has claimed willingness to come to the negotiating table and discuss peace talks with the government. This was disclosed in a press statement by Amado Pesante, spokesperson of the Rodante Urtal Command (URC) operating in Northern Samar where recently eight members of Catarman, Northern Samar police station were brutally killed in an ambush. The rebel [...]
ALS Teachers – heroes seldom known
We have a set of teachers who have made Tacloban City shine through in its Alternate Literacy System (ALS), a program that has been recognized in the 2010 National Literacy Conference and Awards in Baguio City last week. The teachers behind the program are not the regular classroom teachers in our schools yet they have made a difference in the lives of people who do not have the benefit or opportunity of formal schooling. Under the program, these teachers pursue basic literacy and do one [...]
In touch
Upbeat of being in with trends of the times, we are caught unwittingly in the things that keep us unproductive. The advent of technological tools and gadgets had pushed us away from the basic things we ought to be busy of in order to live. Our desire to be at par with advance countries is silently putting us in a quagmire of dire impoverishment. Looking around would make us see the many irrelevant things that consume most of our precious time that ought to have been utilized in productive [...]
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