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…
Let me just add one more item to conclude my treatise on Richard “Dick” Gordon. I have consigned him to my list of few frustrations since at one time when I looked up to him as a presidential timber. I preferred him over Benigno Aquino Jr. in the 2010 Presidential elections but lost. He was…
In a country mired in corruption the rule of law favors and protects the confederates of the kleptocracy and threatens those who oppose and stand against their supremacy. The Senate investigation typifies this anomaly. When ret. Marine Msgt. Orly Guteza showed up in the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee and revealed under oath the revolting details…
Photo: Bongbong Marcos Facebook With the reputation of the Philippines as a country mired in corruption and ruled by insatiable cabal of politicians and graft ridden government departments and agencies there is no other way the economy will end up but bust. The economic managers led by Ralph Recto were over-rated. Who would ever think…
