Tag: decentralization

The Best Metro Traffic Solutions: Rail Network Expansion and Decentralization

October 13, 2019 zaxx 11 Comments

After Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo’s cute little crisis-downplaying publicity stunt on taking the challenge to commute to work, the conclusion is: There is NO mass transport crisis plaguing Filipino commuters, since he was still eventually able to get from point A to B (except that it took him 4 hours from his home in Marikina…

Development

Imperial Manila: Uniting the Nation at a Price

February 7, 2016February 7, 2016 zaxx 12 Comments

It was the dawn of April 27, 1521 when Ferdinand Magellan and his handful of men, confident of their superior European weaponry, got off their ship and waded ashore for a face-off with defiant Lapu Lapu and his 1500-strong army of natives defending Cebu’s Mactan Island. Little did Magellan know that this iron-willed Visayan datu would…

Development, Government, Media, Society, The South

I slap, I squat, we rule (it is not your fiefdom, it is our country)

December 24, 2012December 24, 2012 The Miner 8 Comments

We all have to remember that in a democracy, we still adhere to the rule of law and the mandate given by the people; or emanating from the people. There is the Constitution which was enshrined through the peopleâ€™s mandate. There is the highest elective officer in the land, elected by all registered voters (flying,…

Government, Politics, Society