Category: Development

Here’s What’s Going On Up At Boracay’s Mt. Luho and It’s Not What You Were Told

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Here’s What’s Going On Up At Boracay’s Mt. Luho and It’s Not What You Were Told

In a smallish Facebook Group called Boracay Island News, a post addressed to the Boracay Community by a certain Victor Jeffery made the rounds asking “What’s going on up at Mt. Luho”.  It reads: Angry property disputes have started again at several locations in the Mt Luho area despite many court cases over the past…

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Development, Environment

Agriculture continues to be BURIED by the Philippines’ enormous and rapidly-growing population

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Agriculture continues to be BURIED by the Philippines’ enormous and rapidly-growing population

Social justice versus food security. This is what it boils down to now. In his PhilSTAR piece “Subsistence”, Alex Magno observes… Our rice production is immune to all the subsidies and credit programs organized by government. It will continue to be inefficient unless we consolidate and industrialize our farmlands. This sector remains trapped in subsistence…

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Development

Declining trust in Bongbong Marcos an outcome of a lack of applied leadership fundamentals

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Declining trust in Bongbong Marcos an outcome of a lack of applied leadership fundamentals

We cannot afford to postpone reforms. The nation’s capacity for delivering a better future for its people rests on realizing these reforms. The inauspicious start of the administration of President Bongbong Marcos was indicative of what was perceived. Indeed, it went on to prove true that his 2022 election campaign didn’t have an actual platform…

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Development, Government

The Philippines as the Pariah in ASEAN

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The Philippines as the Pariah in ASEAN

The administration of President Bongbong Marcos is about to mark its second year in office but it still has not been able to make much headway solving the problems Filipinos face in their daily lives. Rice prices, for example, continue to accelerate with the cheapest at around P50.00 per kg, despite the supposed bumper crop…

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Development, History

The 1987 Yellowtard Constitution is the foundation of everything wrong with the Philippines today

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The 1987 Yellowtard Constitution is the foundation of everything wrong with the Philippines today

What did we learn from the extra-judicial ouster of an elected president? The 1987 Constitution? Our generation was fooled into believing that the late former President Ferdinand E. Marcos was evil and the late former President Cory Aquino who seized power from him in 1986 was a saint. We were naive then but for those…

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Charter Change, Development

On what bases do Filipinos harbour “hope” for 2024?

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On what bases do Filipinos harbour “hope” for 2024?

A report on a recent Pulse Asia survey reportedly shows that more than 90 percent of Filipinos face the New Year with a feeling of “hope”. “Amid the various challenges Filipinos face on a daily basis, most of them continue to remain optimistic, with 92 percent saying they will face the new year with hope….

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Development, Society

Filipino communists cozy up to BBM admin to join Uncle Sam’s Little Brown American community

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Filipino communists cozy up to BBM admin to join Uncle Sam’s Little Brown American community

One of my high school batchmates who’s a prominent leftist-liberal joined the Atin Ito resupply mission, if you want to call it that. Inquirer columnist Randy David touts it as “the birth of active citizenry” — if you want to believe that crap, that is. As Edicio dela Torre, one of the leaders of the…

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Development, Society

Yet another anti-jeepney article: How Manila’s iconic Tranvia system was relegated to a mere historical footnote by Filipino “activists”

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Yet another anti-jeepney article: How Manila’s iconic Tranvia system was relegated to a mere historical footnote by Filipino “activists”

Indeed. We’ve written so many of them already, and yet here I am writing yet another one. To be fair, writing anti-jeepney articles is one of the easiest things. For some background on our proud tradition of anti-jeepney, check out this little animated GIF… This animated GIF was hand-crafted by Yours Truly way back in…

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Development, History