Category: Development

‘The Philippines says Thank You’ video: missing the bigger point #PHthankyou

February 9, 2014February 9, 2014 FallenAngel 47 Comments

So apparently, three months after Tropical Storm Haiyan (local name Yolanda) hits the Philippines, the Department of Tourism (DOT) comes out with a short video called “The Philippines says Thank You”, with the accompanying hashtag #PHthankyou. Ok. So what then? Frankly, the video just fails to move me. I’m probably only a handful of Filipinos…

Culture, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

The Philippines’ non-stop requests for foreign aid, support, and investments is becoming tiring and embarrassing

February 7, 2014December 20, 2021 benign0 62 Comments

The thing with the precarious position the Philippines finds itself in its dealings with China and the handling of the two big diplomatic crises surrounding it — the dispute over various territories within the West Philippine Sea and the row over the Philippine government’s unsatisfactory resolution of the 2010 hostage crisis in which nine Hong…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Government, Media

Best opportunity for the Philippines – A Manifesto for development

February 6, 2014February 6, 2014 Hugh Stanley 30 Comments

The following is a list of the real opportunities that exist and which could be grasped by an administration with sufficient foresight and determination. Agriculture. • Fine wool production. The land above 700 meters in Luzon, Mindoro, Panay islands and Batanes can support about 10 million Merino sheep producing about 80 million kilos of wool…

Development, Economy, Environment, Government, Science, Technology

Four lies about President Noynoy Aquino his supporters keep passing around as truths

February 5, 2014July 6, 2015 Ilda 242 Comments

There are a lot of misconceptions about Philippine President Benigno Simeon (BS) Aquino that his supporters have been passing around as “truths”. They range from harmless to downright ridiculous but most of them are obviously part of a propaganda campaign concocted by his propaganda machine to keep his waning popularity up. Indeed, BS Aquino’s “celebrity”…

Crime, Development, Featured, Government, Politics

Erap and Isko, Reviving Manila (Part Two)

February 5, 2014February 5, 2014 P. Farol 14 Comments

The first part of “Erap and Isko, Reviving Manila” pierced the veil created by environmental and heritage conservation pseudo-activists, revealing that those behind efforts to oppose Manila Bay reclamation are actually people and organizations who are merely out to protect their businesses from competition. Property owners who lease out their land or buildings, for one, see…

Development, Economy, Environment, Government, Politics, Science

Noynoy’s 2016 presidential promise to Mar Roxas is destroying the Philippines

February 4, 2014 benign0 7 Comments

Time and again, Filipinos and their government (which, in a democracy, reflects its citizens’ character) have proven a lack of ability to step back and manage their affairs to a level of competence befitting a modern 21st Century state. In key occasions when it was a national imperative to exhibit a collective resolve to squarely…

Development, Government, Politics

Erap and Isko, Reviving Manila (Part One)

January 31, 2014 P. Farol 32 Comments

Manila is the core city of the National Capital Region and despite the many attempts to restore it to its “old glory”, it is still pretty much rotting away and there seems to be no way of stopping its decay. Polluted, crowded, crime infested, unbearably hot during the summer months, chronically flooded during the rainy…

Development, Environment, Government, Politics

Jojo Binay or Kris Aquino may be president in 2016 – but it really does not matter

January 31, 2014 benign0 72 Comments

The next presidential elections is still more than two years away but Filipinos are already looking to 2016 for that anticipated cool change. It’s not that the current term under President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III can be described as hot. Far from it. The Second Philippine Reich can be considered more of a protracted…

Development, Economy, Politics, Technology