Category: Development

Century Peak Tests President Duterte’s Resolve on Reclamation Ban

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Century Peak Tests President Duterte’s Resolve on Reclamation Ban

It seems proponents of reclamation projects are out to test President Rodrigo Duterte’s resolve a few weeks after saying he had put a stop to such projects because of corruption. “You know, itong sa (this) Manila Bay na reclamation, thousands have applied but because of the corruption that I’ve heard early last year, there’s no more processing of papers,”…

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Manila “achievements” pimped into service for Isko Moreno 2022 presidential run, ultimately BETRAYS Manileño constituents

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Manila “achievements” pimped into service for Isko Moreno 2022 presidential run, ultimately BETRAYS Manileño constituents

You know it would come to the point that a puff piece praising Manila Mayor Isko Moreno would eventually be written. It was just a matter of time. In his PhilSTAR piece “The city of Manila acting like Singapore”, columnist Andrew Masigan describes Isko as a “transformative leader” gushing about how Moreno had “achieved more…

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Anti-Duterte oligarchs back Isko Moreno candidacy, salivating over infra projects worth BILLIONS!

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Anti-Duterte oligarchs back Isko Moreno candidacy, salivating over infra projects worth BILLIONS!

The usual crap assessment from former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario’s think-tank Stratbase-ADR Institute given prime space on mainstream media! In an Inquirer “report” on “Governance prospects for 2022 and beyond”, a certain Dindo Manhit, “founder and managing director of Stratbase Group”, regurgitated the outcome of a “town hall” organised by this “institute” which…

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Blame on Marcos and, now, Duterte for the Philippines’ underdevelopment is a LIE

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Blame on Marcos and, now, Duterte for the Philippines’ underdevelopment is a LIE

I keep wondering why everything that is wrong with this country is blamed on former President Ferdinand Marcos and current President Rodrigo Duterte and not the political bloc that was in power for thirty years since 1986. Marcos was in power for twenty-one. Duterte six. That’s a total of twenty-seven. You don’t need to have…

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Development, Economy

Platforms, a focus on issues, and continuity with reform initiatives are critical input into the 2022 election conversation

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Platforms, a focus on issues, and continuity with reform initiatives are critical input into the 2022 election conversation

Manila Standard columnist Lito Banayo thinks that an amendment of the Constitution solves the problem of political turncoats. In his piece “The short shelf life of Philippine political parties”, Banayo expresses his hope that “the next president will see it fit to initiate revision of the 1987 Constitution and end this insanity of a multi-party…

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Philippines no longer a US lapdog, now a respectable ASEAN member and a REAL Asian nation

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Philippines no longer a US lapdog, now a respectable ASEAN member and a REAL Asian nation

The national artist for literature F. Sionil Jose cites Richard Javad Heydarian in “Our foreign policy”, his PhilSTAR piece . That’s probably due to both of them being Ilocano. On Javad’s part, he’s only part Ilocano so he’s no GI, but I digress. Jose, delves into the wisdom and pitfalls of abandoning the cozy embrace…

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Dumaguete City Government To Sign Joint Venture for 174 Hectare Reclamation Amidst Raging Protests

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Dumaguete City Government To Sign Joint Venture for 174 Hectare Reclamation Amidst Raging Protests

So-called Dumaguete Smart City Reclamation Threatens to Spread Devastation in Mindanao Sea Dumaguete City Mayor Felipe Antonio B. Remollo is grossly understating the devastation that his pet 174 hectare reclamation project will bring to the people of provinces surrounding the Bohol Sea — also called the Mindanao sea. This even as today Mayor Remollo and…

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Duterte reverses Aquino admin failures, makes good on infrastructure development promises

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Duterte reverses Aquino admin failures, makes good on infrastructure development promises

The Rappler article “Aquino to end term with 7 completed PPP projects” dated December 19, 2013 authored by Cherrie Regalado all but parrots lofty statements made by the then Yellow government on their infrastructure development record — three years before then President Noynoy Aquino’s term ended. Regalado “reported” on “a press briefing on Thursday, December…

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