“All that is needed is unity,” Bongbong Marcos declared and the malignant problems besetting the nation are solved. The Philippines is poor and late developed, unity is the answer. Poverty is endemic in the country, unity is the solution. Unity will fix unemployment, criminality, poor health and social services, lack of
March 12, 2022
Last week while on the way to the airport, I struck a conversation with the taxi driver, a practice I usually do. Such conversation I believe is important for it provides anecdotal information of public pulse on the ground. We talked about current events and later the conversation veered towards electoral
March 5, 2022
With a sense of inevitability, the camp of Bongbong Marcos trumpeted during their proclamation rally last week that the election is over except the counting. It appears survey results from reputable polling firms back the claim. Pulse Asia survey done on Jan 19 to 24, 2022 shows Bongbong Marcos led the
February 19, 2022
This week, the campaign for national positions in the 2022 elections started. Although candidates for national posts had been going around the country since last year, the real fight begins this week. Official campaign started last February 8, 2022 and the next ninety days will make or break the candidates. Those
February 12, 2022
“He must be held accountable!” This is the central finding of the 113-page Senate blue ribbon committee report on the controversial deal between the government and Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. The report accused Du30 as complicit in “one of the biggest plunders of the Philippines’ coffers in recent history.” The Pharmally controversy is
February 5, 2022
Biased = anti-Marcos. This sums up the thinking of the Marcoses vis-a-vis-vis the media, the facts, the truth, and the world in general. Presidential aspirant Bongbong Marcos Jr., son and namesake of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Sr., is at the heart again of another controversy when he refused to participate in a
January 29, 2022
Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 continues its rampage around the country. The surge is still at its crest this week. Record of daily cases of infection is broken on a daily basis. On Jan 13, 2022, daily cases reached 34,021 the highest recorded at that time only to be broken the following
January 22, 2022
New year, new surge. The first week of 2022 greeted the country with the fourth surge of infections and record-breaking numbers of Filipinos getting the Covid-19 virus. The new spike in infections is reminding Filipinos the pandemic is far from over. This week, daily cases of infection were broken four times.
January 15, 2022
In this election season, politicians of various colors, shades, and stripes take the center stage to sell themselves to the public. All of them package themselves as ethical eunuchs and paragons of public service. Aided by sophisticated and well-designed public relations campaigns, they conceal their true selves and try to win
January 8, 2022
The ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup, the most popular sports tournament in Southeast Asia resumed after it was suspended last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2020 edition of the biennial competition was held in the last month of 2021 to close the year. Since the “Miracle of Hanoi”
December 24, 2021
Philippines ranks last in the Nikkei Covid-19 Recovery pandemic performance index among the 121 countries evaluated. The country is also 53rd among the 53 countries “as a bad place to be in during the pandemic” according to Bloomberg’s Covid-19 Resilience Ranking. The Nikkei index indicates that the Philippines is among the
December 18, 2021
