Category: Development

Access to safe drinking water critical in the coming days to prevent diarrhea outbreak

August 7, 2012 benign0 1 Comment

With word out that “unprecedented” heavy rains may continue well into Thursday the 9th of August, persistent floods are expected to spawn a new risk to health. Diarrhea outbreaks now pose a threat to thousands of Filipinos impacted by flood waters. Health Secretary Enrique Ona has issued warnings about the dangers of contaminated drinking water…

Development, Environment

Philippine Reproductive Health Bill: politically-corrected beyond recognition

July 31, 2012July 31, 2012 benign0 71 Comments

The Reproductive Health Bill (RH Bill) is one hell of a beast. The Philippines’ Roman Catholic Church literally sees it as such — a beast straight out of hell that will undermine everything that it stands for. It has, today, come down to the vote: Will Philippine Congress approve or reject the bill? It is…

Culture, Development, Religion, Society

Former President Gloria Arroyo released on bail: Philippines plunges back into the Dark Ages!

July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 benign0 23 Comments

Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III has long maintained that the Philippines is impoverished because of corruption. He also maintains that said corruption was what described the last ten years stretching from 2001 up to 2010 — the period within which ruled former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA). We can then infer on the back…

Crime, Development, Government, Politics

President Noynoy Aquino’s 2012 SONA still blames GMA and takes credit for her work

July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 Ilda 80 Comments

A news report said that President Benigno Simeon â€œBSâ€ Aquino got a total of 120 claps while delivering his third State of the Nation Address (SONA) before Congress. In Philippine society, such trivial detail seems important enough to be highlighted. It is crucial to let the public know that the President is still popular particularly…

Development, Economy, Government, Media, Politics

Analysis of the 2012 State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Benigno Aquino III delivered before Congress July 23

July 23, 2012July 23, 2012 benign0 29 Comments

Number of classrooms made available, increased access to public healthcare, performance-based bonus incentives for government employees, mosquito traps to curb the spread of dengue, Sin Tax bills, jobs at BPOs, new airports in Bohol, a passenger terminal in Caticlan, properly paved roads… Yadda yadda yadda is what kicked off and sustained the 2012 State of…

Development, Government

Flooding in Metro Manila: When will Filipinos get angry enough?

July 21, 2012July 8, 2015 benign0 6 Comments

So Metro Manilans, I hear, are stuck in traffic and floods this weekend. Again. And what’s this I hear? Oh, outrage. But where was that outrage when the problem was not this big yet and all there was were mere signs of problems brewing? I’ll tell you where that outrage was. There was none. In…

Culture, Development, Society

After living here all my life I can say Metro Manila is not an acquired taste

July 19, 2012 Kate Natividad 16 Comments

I finally checked out Iya-J’s recent article Carlos Celdran is a bad influence to the Filipino people after seeing it appear on my newsfeed more than a few times over the last couple of days. Obviously it took that long for it to finally arouse my curiosity. I wouldn’t really have known who this Carlos…

Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Media, Society

A pre-analysis of the likely BS in PNoy’s 2012 State of the Nation Address (SONA)

July 19, 2012 benign0 9 Comments

The next presidential State of the Nation Address (SONA) to be delivered to joint sessions of Philippine Congress next week is likely to have ‘BS’ written all over it. That’s because the 2012 SONA is, in fact, a speech that will be delivered by Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III. Like any speech that…

Development, Economy, Government, Politics