Category: Government

5-star perks for VIP inmates bared in Philippine prison but top jail exec excused!

December 17, 2014December 18, 2014 benign0 21 Comments

At first, I really didn’t understand what the big “shock” over the 5-star-hotel-like trappings laid out for “special” inmates in the Philippines’ main prison facility, the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila was all about. Stories about the top-notch perks enjoyed by the country’s prison royalty have been the stuff of legend for…

Crime, Government, Society

Will Mar Roxas Be The Next Philippine President?

December 16, 2014December 16, 2014 P. Farol 20 Comments

I think if some American blogger living in PH can come up with a post saying Secretary of Interior and Local Government Mar Roxas will win the Presidential election in 2016 purely based on professional guesswork, perhaps I can do better just by reviewing what I think I know about winning elections and Filipino voting…

Government, Politics

Finished or not finished, pass your papers!

December 15, 2014December 15, 2014 Soy Lagman 54 Comments

My teacher used to shout “finished or not finished, pass your papers” as we hurriedly tried to cram in answers to questions during written exams in grade school. The same situation awaits President Aquino come June 2016. There will always be unfinished tasks and unfulfilled promises in a politician’s term but eighteen (18) long months…

Development, Economy, Government, Politics

Why DILG Secretary Mar Roxas deserves to be ridiculed

December 12, 2014December 12, 2014 benign0 13 Comments

You gotta laugh when you read about people coming to the defense of Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas. There is enough reason to take Roxas’s numerous laughable publicity stunts with a grain of salt at best. An executive riding a motorbike without a helmet to do work he should be delegating…

Civics, Culture, Government, Media, Politics, Society

United States Senate report on CIA torture shocks the world!

December 11, 2014 benign0 42 Comments

A 525-page unclassified portion of a 6,000-page report compiled by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s Detention and Interrogation Program using enhanced interrogation techniques (a euphemism for torture) on detainees following the September 11 attacks in 2001 was released on December 9, 2014, after a presentation…

Civics, Crime, Government, Politics, Society

Life for DILG Sec Mar Roxas is one big series of PR disasters

December 11, 2014 Ilda 14 Comments

Advancement in technology and the advent of social media has made the dissemination of information so much faster nowadays. Anyone who has access to a computer and a WiFI connection can receive instant information from the Net about what’s happening locally and globally. This has proven to be a double-edged sword for some high-profile personalities…

Civics, Government, Media, Politics

How lessons learned from #Hagupit can help deliver justice to the #Maguindanao massacre victims

December 9, 2014 benign0 9 Comments

Super Typhoon Hagupit (locally code-named “Ruby”) has come and gone, and many lessons have been learned. But the most important insight following this experience is quite tragic: that the thousands upon thousands of lives lost in previous years to typhoons were all preventable. The death toll in the aftermath of Hagupit’s visit to the most…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Mar Roxas motorbike spill mars #Hagupit PR while wife Korina strikes again!

December 8, 2014 benign0 69 Comments

“He does try,” commented one netizen of Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas who is shown in a widely-circulated photo on a motorbike while on an inspection trip in Taft, Samar, one of the areas where Super Typhoon Hagupit first made landfall. It can be noted that Roxas was not wearing a…

Civics, Government, Politics