Category: Government

Additional funding for Leni Robredo’s office: a case of REVERSE PORK BARREL

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 benign0 4 Comments

Back in the day, pork barrel — known by a variety of euphemisms like “Priority Development Assistance Fund” (PDAF) and most notorious of all, the so-called “Disbursement Acceleration Program” (DAP) — usually involved funds “allocated” by the Executive Branch to legislators. Nowadays we are seeing an even bigger perversion of this crooked accounting sleight of…

Government, Politics

The Philippines needs a strong police and army more than ever

August 27, 2020 benign0 11 Comments

Terrorists are getting bolder as it becomes ever more pointedly evident that the Opposition (specifically its leading blocs, the communists and the Yellowtards) regard demonisation of the police and the military as cornerstones of their sick ideologies. Indeed, Filipinos have long suspected strong links between the Yellowtards (the bloc of rabid partisans loyal to the…

Culture, Government, Politics

Leni Robredo keeps proving what a big FAKE she is

August 25, 2020August 26, 2020 benign0 6 Comments

If there is something current “vice president” Leni Robredo has so far proven, it is that she is a good performer. Her most recent PR stunt in which she delivered her “recommendations” on ways to improve the “fight” versus the coronavirus came across as a pretty competent stage act that left her fans gushing. Unfortunately,…

Government, Politics

DOH Issues Advisory Against TruLaboratories Corporation, Warns Other Companies

August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 P. Farol 1 Comment

It appears that companies have jumped the gun on the still to be approved Omnibus Guidelines on COVID-19 Testing and have begun marketing their testing kits through social media. This has prompted the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) to issue an advisory calling out TruLaboratories Corporation for publishing a social media post which it says…

Business, Government

Duque Should Ban Two Korean Covid-19 Rapid Testing Kits Before Soul Searching

August 19, 2020 P. Farol 2 Comments

What Health Secretary Francisco Duque III should be doing is to double down on putting his nose to the grindstone and shun the cringe-inducing dramatics of being under-appreciated as well as needing to do some soul searching. Ditto for Covid-19 Testing “Czar” Secretary Vince Dizon. Perhaps, if they did, they could have prevented the country…

Government

COVID-19 economic collapse is the crisis the Philippines had to have!

August 7, 2020 benign0 7 Comments

Filipinos can no longer rely on their traditional gravy trains — OFWism, work outsourced from the First World, foreign investment, and foreign aid — to prop up their labour-added-value economy. Foreign workers are coming “home” by the droves, the First World is rapidly repatriating its offshore work, and governments all over the world are diverting…

Business, Economy, Government

Reliable COVID-19 Rapid Testing Kits Needed For Philippine Economic Recovery

June 24, 2020 P. Farol 4 Comments

The Philippine response to the COVID-19 pandemic has already been described as one of the slowest, longest, and least effective in the world by public health experts who based their observations on corrected COVID-19 data. Yesterday, we hit a new all time single day high of 1,150 confirmed COVID 19 cases. That’s 789 fresh cases…

Government

Philippine FDA Should Move Quicker to Recall Rapid Testing Kits Already Rejected by China

June 22, 2020 P. Farol 1 Comment

Amidst calls for the resignation of Health Secretary Francisco Duque and some controversy surrounding the firing or resignation of IATF special consultant Dr. Tony Leachon, it looks like the country is being flooded with inferior Covid-19 Rapid Testing Kits. Lower House Health Committee Vice Chairman Cong. Michael T. Defensor is at a loss over the…

Government