Tag: flooding

Flooding in Manila following Typhoon Gaemi: Déjà vu all over again!

July 24, 2024 benign0 6 Comments

Journalists “reporting” on the devastation wrought by the passing of Typhoon Gaemi (along with southwest monsoon rains) may as well be copy-and-paste jobs. After all, there is a trove of past news reports on typhoons (and even minor weather disturbances) hitting the Philippines and causing disproportionate devastation. Indeed, what stands out is the embarrassing sameness…

Development, Environment

Thirty Years of Tommy Osmena, Same Old Cebu City Problems

April 9, 2018April 9, 2018 P. Farol 6 Comments

It is ironic that a so called rectification and change movement online would openly support Cebu City Mayor Tommy Osmena who represents anything but rectification and change for the better. Then again, this is the same group that preaches about the goodness of the parliamentary form of government and yet employs unparliamentary behavior when they…

Development, Government, Uncategorized

Philippine tourism touted as key to ‘inclusive’ growth while decay of key infrastructure continues

May 20, 2014 benign0 13 Comments

Climate change continues to loom as one of the biggest risks to the Philippines’ long-term future. Speaking before the United Nations World Tourism Organization’s ASEAN International Conference on Tourism and Climate Change in Legazpi City yesterday, Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III, asserted that the ‘new normal’ it will bring will compromise the long-aspired-for…

Development, Economy, Environment, Government

Skyway Stage 3 construction: Filipinos to ‘sacrifice’ yet again as Metro Manila braces for years of standstill traffic

February 17, 2014 benign0 53 Comments

True to form, Filipinos are abuzz again with half-assed ideas on how best to cope with the heavier-than-heavy traffic that will snarl Metro Manila as construction on the long-overdue “Skyway Stage 3” project which will link the South Luzon Tollway (SLT) to the North Luzon Expressway (NLE) via an elevated six-lane 15-kilometre elevated highway through…

Civics, Development, Government, Lifestyle

The DAP is a product of PNoy’s flawed understanding of the government’s financial position in 2010

October 14, 2013 benign0 6 Comments

The thing with trying to pitch purported good intentions is that once the resources and the means to deliver those intentions have been tainted in the public eye, there is little hope for redemption. Malacañang, true to form always five steps behind when it comes to justifying its position on many matters of national consequence,…

Crime, Development, Environment, Government, Politics

And then, the disaster drama rolls in…

August 22, 2013 P. Farol 13 Comments

I’d guess that for every hysterical and sensationalized news report on TV Patrol/24-Oras, there are probably hundreds or thousands of stories of people who planned and prepared well for what was obviously an imminent and widespread flooding disaster in Metro Manila. I wanted to forego the usual rant about TV stations gunning for ratings by…

Media

The pigsty that is the Philippines

August 19, 2013August 19, 2013 FallenAngel 38 Comments

The rains that came just this weekend intensified to the extent that come Monday, August 19, the resulting floods brought traffic in the Metro to a standstill. Several parts of Metro Manila had no choice but to call off class for all levels. Government offices were forced to declare “no work” due to the hazards…

Development, Environment, Government, Politics

Pork is Cheap in Bahana Republic

August 19, 2013 John Bay 1 Comment

I seem to be part of the lucky few in my city where 15 out of 18 barangays are submerged in water after a continuous downpour of ‘Maring’. The great revelation in all of this is that floodwaters always have a way of bringing all things to the surface. It is a trite simile of…

Economy, Government, Media, Politics