Category: Development

The Philippines needs FILIPINO investment more than foreign investment

March 6, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

News is getting around that contrary to what doomsayers in the Philippine Opposition (led by their obsolete thought leaders in the Liberal Party, a.k.a. the Yellowtards) are saying, investors remain bullish about the Philippines. Indeed, a recent report published by Business Insider ranked the Philippines Number One in a list of “the best countries to…

Culture, Development, Politics

Filipinos must put EDSA I and Yellowtardism where they belong

February 28, 2018March 1, 2018 FallenAngel 5 Comments

In the rubbish bin of history. By now it is pretty obvious that there is still a considerable group of Filipinos – many of them supposedly who are “educated” – who refuse to let go of the EDSA I narrative. To put it quite plainly, EDSA People Power happened simply because the leader at that…

Culture, Development

The Philippine Opposition is obsolete and needs to be replaced with one focused on nation building

February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 benign0 5 Comments

What next? Again, this is the question Filipinos are left with following this year’s “EDSA People Power Revolution” anniversary. Specifically, the question of how exactly to build upon the experience of this 1986 “revolution” has become a head-scratcher for most. It all seemed clear back then — how “freedom” would be the foundation upon which…

Culture, Development

Boracay-Panay-Negros-Cebu-Bohol: Can Infrastructure Superhero Mark Villar Link the Major Visayan Islands?

February 26, 2018 zaxx 5 Comments

If America has Iron Man, the Philippines has a Concrete Superhero. “Audacious and overly ambitious” would be the common Pinoy’s reaction if the idea was floated decades ago. Filipinos today coming up with an idea to link the major Visayan islands would be likened to Americans dreaming of landing a man with their flag on…

Development

Degradation happening in Boracay is happening everywhere in the Philippines

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 Ilda 10 Comments

I overheard someone say the other day, “What happened to Boracay is enough to make you feel ashamed to be called a Filipino”. Some of you may feel outraged over that statement. After all, Boracay is not the Philippines. Or is it? Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte recently described Boracay as a cesspool – faeces and…

Development, Environment, Lifestyle

Filipino culture may not be compatible with operating and using modern train systems

February 19, 2018 benign0 18 Comments

News that a train line had, yet again, ground to a halt in the Philippines is no longer news. This is because train network stoppages are now more the rule than the exception for the average Filipino commuter. For the hapless Filipino commuter, every morning heralds a day of abject uncertainty. The question every morning…

Culture, Development, Tech Talk

Being “poor” does not exempt jeepney drivers from complying to road safety standards

February 10, 2018 benign0 19 Comments

Opposition and left-leaning “activists” are up in arms over a photo of what is said to be a list of requirements jeepney drivers need to meet in order to comply with government efforts to improve the quality of public transport and air quality in major Philippine cities. Jeepneys are 1940s-vintage design vehicles and remain a…

Development, Government, Lifestyle

TRAIN TRAIN TRAIN – Why the Yellows are Speechless (Nganga) about Duterte’s Nation-Building Strategy

February 3, 2018 zaxx 5 Comments

It’s a masterpiece of a masterplan in nation building that one could never in one’s wildest dreams ever imagine coming out of a Yellow Cult leader’s pointed head. Yet it only took the basic common sense of a lowly unrefined mayor from the country’s marginalized South to get the country back on its rail tracks…

Development, Government, Politics