Already each presidential and vice presidential wannabees had surfaced packaging themselves as the saviors of our benighted country. Sen. Risa Hontiveros early on had the endorsement of putschist Antonio Trillanes who peddles her as one who can prevent another Duterte from becoming president. He went all the way in declaring Davao City as the most…
The air is rife with rumors, Pres. Bongbong Marcos has eyed former Philippine Airlines President and Chief Operating Officer, Captain Stanley Ng, to replace Tourism Secretary Cristina Frasco. As I write this piece there is no indication as yet whether Ng will accept the post given the fact that the country had become the laggard…
And here comes the indelible fact. The Trust Rating of Pres. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. plummeted to -3% amidst the magma of corruption and people’s perception of the ineptness of leadership that brought the country into the brink of a failed state. The nation is in the murk of corruption unimaginable in any point of…
The unprecedented corruption rooted from the scandalous ghost and substandard flood control project under the Marcos administration elicited a plethora of expose’ that involved the Office of the President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee. The triumverate created a tapestry of how to ransack the government…
If the small fries involved in the ghost flood control projects in Mindoro had been herded and sent to jail, should not those involved in the ₱60-billion heist of the Philippine Health Insurance and PDIC ₱107- billion Trust Funds be likewise locked up in jail? Nobody has come out with any accounting how the funds…
We are living in uncertain times. The stock index continued to plummet, the economy is bleak, the value of the peso is breaching ₱59 to a dollar. The most recent casualty in the sophomoric economic strategy is the manufacturing sector which suffered a trade slump by about 40%. Obviously it has substantially lost the export…
In the midst of socio-political turmoil that the Philippines is experiencing today, down south is a picture of calm, a prevailing aura of confidence and trust. There is a surge of muti-billion pesos in investments from domestic and local entrepreneurs that is changing the landscape of Davao City. The unimpeded progressive development of Davao metropolis is a contradiction…
Photo courtesy: PTV I have been wondering why Bicol Partylist Representative Terry Ridon has incessantly attacked former President Rodrigo Duterte over what he claimed were ghost and substandard flood control projects in Davao City. He has been like a squeaking female eagle his exocrine glands, some nitizens noticed, appeared to be afflicted in the process…
A couple of friends texted me a few days ago about a nasty rumor that Malacanang has a covert plan to appoint a caretaker Mayor for Davao City claiming that elected Mayor Rodrigo Duterte will no longer be able to assume office because of his present condition. A member of the City Council and a…
Photo Courtesy: DA What is happening these recent days is no longer entertaining as the childish irrelevance of Antonio Trillanes, a fluke in the Philippine Senate. Shortly before he left for Malaysia to attend the ASEAN Summit, Pres. BongBong Marcos announced that he issued an Executive Order 100 that establishes a floor price of palay…
