We beg to differ.
The provision allowing the United States State Department to ban Filipino nationals found to be “involved” in the “wrongful imprisonment” of Philippine Senator Leila De Lima entry into the US does exist. However, executing it will likely be highly problematic and next to impossible. Stated in the document S. Rept. 116-126 – DEPARTMENT OF STATE,…
Back when the Spanish Conquistadors first set foot on Philippine shores and claimed all in the name of God and the Spanish king, it would have looked like this all made sense. Christianity, after all, was the “good” religion and Western civilisation regarded as a necessary “civilising” force. Europeans saw themselves as burdened by a…
The Philippine Opposition are rotting from the inside. This is because their own “thought leaders” are failing to provide sound leadership. Rather than enrich their party ideologies, the premiere “influencers” of the Opposition are leading their members down dead-end pathways. Over the last ten years, the ideological foundations of what had been an almost four-decade…
May mga kaibigan akong minasama ang desisyon ng Department of Transportation (DOTr) dahil sa decision nitong magpapasok ng dalawa pang motorcycle taxi services upang kumpetensyahin ang Angkas. Tingin ko, dahil ito sa kagagawan ni Angkas Regulatory and Public Affairs Head George Royeca at ng kasinungalingang pinakalat nito tungkol sa desisyon ng DOTr. Ang sabi niya…
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If there’s any gray matter left with neurons still firing among members of the Yellow Opposition Camp currently led by widely perceived ‘all-talk no-walk’ ‘too fake to be true’ future-ex-“VP” Leni “Lugaw Queen” Robredo, they would by now recognize the large bold letters written in the sky spelling out “POLITICAL SUICIDE!” No less than the…
The whole trouble with any notion of a “Magnitsky Act” regime applied across independent nations is that actually executing its tenets is inherently problematic and will prove extremely difficult. In the case of reported plans of the UK and European Union each implementing their own versions of this Act, the result is likely to be…
Kung makapagdrama si George Royeca ng Angkas pang MMK at KMJS, Kesyo daw mawawalan ng trabaho ang mga Angkas drivers at mananakaw ng kompetisyon ang mga staff nila. Unang-una, hindi sila malalagay sa alanganin kung hindi sinolo at ginawang monopoliya sa loob ng anim na buwan ang motorcycle taxi service. Ito ang dahilang kung kaya…
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The latest fashionable hashtag at the moment is #SaveAngkas. Angkas (a colloquial term for “hitch a ride”) is a motorcycle ride hailing and delivery service that is one of those modern-day jeepney-style solutions to systemic problems that could have been avoided if Filipinos exercised a bit more foresight and longer-term planning. The Philippine government is…
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