‘Unristricted Dissection’ Archives
Election: Depicting the perpetual ineffectual exercises of the Filipino people
Our legislators have become adept in another kind of work that is, looking into the lives of national figures! They love to immerse themselves into useless investigations that they forget the reason why they are in office. These senators and congressmen have a lot to answer for. They are supposed to make sound laws! The same people who pay them fat salaries and gargantuan privileges have elected them into office. During the past years, they have poured a lot of precious time and scarce [...]
City Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program’s Expansion this year: an implication of a successful initial implementation
Those who are not fully aware of the aspirations of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program(4Ps) of the government for the deprived sector of our society would unfeelingly react about so many ambiguities of the program. There was one classmate of mine in the graduate school who had referred the 4Ps beneficiaries as parasites. Biologically speaking, parasites are organisms that depend on other organisms called hosts wherein such dependence constitutes harm to the host. Given my limited [...]
Women and children in darkness: exposing human trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation
Elsa was a sixteen-year old who lived in a broken family. Her father left them three years ago to elope with his girlfriend living in Manila. Elsa, together with her mother and six younger siblings lived indigently in a remote barrio in Samar, substantiating only with a little supply of sweet potato tops growing in their backyard and the modest amount of money they derive from selling these vegetables. Aling Marta, Elsa’s mother could no longer toil in the market selling those sweet potato [...]
It is high time to go back to the farm and produce food
The current state of the economy has not improved that people are still poor and suffering from all sorts of hardships from putting food on the table up to sending children to school. The prices of basic commodities which are affected by worldwide woes including the fluctuating prices of petroleum and other fuel products keep lives on a seesaw with no assurance of letting up. Even vegetables can no longer be a daily fare for most poor families as prices of these and other agricultural [...]
Water everywhere but no water to be found*Water is reckoned as a source of life. It provides a range of benefits to mankind in all aspects of human and societal development. With water, we can absolutely live without consuming food; nature continues to provide all the necessary things all living things necessitate. In our city, one of the major sources of livelihood is derived from the big bodies of water that surround it. This does not give any problem to everyone considering that there is abundance of available aquatic resources including fish catches that activate our fishing industries in the region. Even with potable water supply that provides thousands of consumers, we are also blessed with freshwater resources that are overflowing with all feasible advantages and benefits that come from them. Knowing also the geography of Tacloban City, one can really say that water is everywhere. But there is no water to be found in the pipes of most consumers in our city! If these pipes were only given the opportunity to put across their predicament, there is no way that they would be talking. Not with the reality that pipes do not talk, but because, they had been long dead of tremendous thirst and dehydration! Of course, with this kind of problem, the city government of Tacloban, being the local government unit responsible for the welfare of its constituents, will take all the blame. Those who are totally unaware of the reality behind this would really react on the irresponsibility and ineptitude of our city leaders. Conversely, our city leaders particularly the city mayor is not to blame for this! To row the boat, the Office of the City Mayor had initiated steps on solving this perennial water problem of the city. The idea of having a sole water district of Tacloban had long been pre-thought, planned and somehow started but some would rather block than support it. Eventually, the set-up got redesigned with small water impounding projects in areas with intense problem but with good water source as the good Mayor could not be stopped finding solutions. The entire water consumers of the City of Tacloban are subscribed to the Leyte Metropolitan Water District which is under the administrative control of the provincial government of Leyte. This administrative authority grants the highest official of the provincial government to appoint the LMWD board of directors who will then sit en banc to assign a general manager. From what the majority of Taclobanons have observed, the water facility is in default of its mandate to provide adequate water to Tacloban. These observations on inadequate and inefficient services of the LMWD have long been there for several years now. The people of Tacloban do not deserve such service! Consumers pay the exact amount corresponding to the billing statements issued by LMWD. But, the services offered in return to these payments do not meet with the expectations of an average water consumer. Taclobanons can barely use the water which is supposed to flow out from their faucets. How many more years do we have to wait to get the best services of our water district? One of the very possible ways to change things for the better in relation to this water problem of the city is to transfer the administrative command of LMWD to the city government of Tacloban. The city of Tacloban will get its fair share of the good services expected to have been delivered by the LMWD. How is this possible? Tacloban should at least get 75 percent of its sharing in the total consumers within the jurisdiction of the water district. Presently, Tacloban has only 71.8 percent. In reality, the city should have exceeded the 75 percent sharing, had it not been for the “One-meter policy” issued by the board of directors of LMWD. This policy asserts that there should only be one water meter for every subdivision in the city. What is more surprising is that this policy holds true only in Tacloban City. The other eight municipalities under the concern of LMWD are off the hook from this policy. This fight for justice against the water problem in Tacloban City is continually growing as the unfairness is also getting widespread. Taclobanons have to connive with and help its city leaders in this pursuit. No one deserves from the ill treatment rendered by the current water district. *This is a line taken from the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge entitled The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. By: Jed Paolo A. Cairo
Water is reckoned as a source of life. It provides a range of benefits to mankind in all aspects of human and societal development. With water, we can absolutely live without consuming food; nature continues to provide all the necessary things all living things necessitate. In our city, one of the major sources of livelihood is derived from the big bodies of water that surround it. This does not give any problem to everyone considering that there is abundance of available aquatic resources [...]
Pyrodinium bahamense var. compressum*
It is indeed a piece of good news to hear from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources that the coastal waters of eastern Visayas are now at no cost from red tide phenomenon. After being confirmed highly positive from red tide, Region VIII had dwindled in several aspects of its fishing industry. Geographically located at the middle eastern part of the archipelago and facing the western Pacific Ocean, our region plunks as a door to a rich diversity of marine wildlife and aquatic resources. [...]
North Korea’s launch a show of indifference, yet something to learn from
The country was shaken when TV channels announced to Filipinos in certain areas of the country to stay indoors and escape possible falling debris from the latest rocket launch of North Korea. Although the act is quite small to be taken seriously knowing full well the real economic situation of the country, still many of our fellowmen were scared at the possible implications of the launch which turned out to be a fiasco. It must be humiliating for an upstart to show its weakness before the [...]
Online Game Addiction and Discipline
While I was browsing the yahoo website, I got to encounter a news article about a 13-year old boy chained by his father as punishment of skipping school. The father was totally irate with the idea that his son skipped from going to school and instead, went to a computer café to play online games. It came to my awareness that other places in the world also experience similar tight spot with regards to the increasing addiction of the youth to online games to the extent that they are already [...]
The anatomy of choosing a career
Our youngest sibling graduated from high school last Thursday. He is one of the millions of high school graduates around the globe who will be entering college this coming school year 2012-2013. I asked my mother about her plan of our brother. She told me that she wanted him to take up Accountancy. I retorted by saying that he does not fit for such course. I added by saying that he would be very well in a criminology program. My mother cut me short and replied that she does not want him to be a [...]
Remembering a cherished grandmother, Mrs. Erlinda Cinco Alicer-Arante
Death in the family is a very painful experience. Although we knew that our grandparents were having health problems, it was something that was taken for granted or perhaps denied. We call our grandmother, Mommy. She was a reassuring figure in my elementary years as she was a teacher in Kapangian Central School, where I went to for my elementary grades. Her presence in the school kept my confidence high; I knew that somebody who loves me so much is just around. The feeling helped me [...]
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