Tag: poverty

Why is President Noynoy Aquino ‘baffled’ by high unemployment in the Philippines?

February 12, 2014 benign0 32 Comments

It is quite revealing that Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III would, one moment, confidently credit himself with the Philippines’ purportedly robust economic numbers then, on another, be left scratching his dome as to the reasons why the “positive” nature of these so-called indicators are not translating to jobs and smiles for the majority…

Development, Economy, Government, Society

The Philippines’ non-stop requests for foreign aid, support, and investments is becoming tiring and embarrassing

February 7, 2014December 20, 2021 benign0 62 Comments

The thing with the precarious position the Philippines finds itself in its dealings with China and the handling of the two big diplomatic crises surrounding it — the dispute over various territories within the West Philippine Sea and the row over the Philippine government’s unsatisfactory resolution of the 2010 hostage crisis in which nine Hong…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Government, Media

What women like Deniece Cornejo teach us about rape

January 30, 2014 Kate Natividad 17 Comments

Wow! Turns out my initial hunches about the Vhong Navarro incident were right! Unlike Senator Bong Revilla’s toy truckload of evidence (literally), the evidence burying mobster Cedric Lee and girlette Deniece Cornejo is mountainous (figuratively). As such, I find it hard to believe it when I see some people still coming to the defense of…

Crime, Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

PNoy’s abuse of power is the result of the Filipino people’s laziness

January 29, 2014January 29, 2014 Ilda 16 Comments

We all have to deal or transact with hired professionals or employees on a regular basis. Most of us would rather see the good side of the individual we are dealing with than their bad side because the alternative would be hard work. For example, when we find a dentist who was highly recommended by…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Were the ‘victims’ of the San Roque, Agham demolition legal residents or just a bunch of squatters?

January 28, 2014 benign0 15 Comments

Nowhere in the incident reports issued by commie publication Bulatlat did information surrounding the legality of the demolition victims’ residency in the area come up. The only piece of information remotely pertaining to some semblance of legal argument in the report was around a “notice of demolition” that supposedly expired several months ago. According to…

Civics, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Society

Only under foreign pressure: Ph gov’t cracks down on sexual abuse of children over the Internet

January 20, 2014 benign0 39 Comments

Child abuse in the Philippines has been going on for the longest time. It is in plain sight. Some of it is relatively benign abuse, like allowing children to grow fat on a diet of soft drinks and junk food or making them perform in exploitative television variety shows. Others are horrid, using kids to…

Crime, Government, Media, Society

How Serious is the Philippines’ Educational Crisis?

November 6, 2013 Richard Javad Heydarian 9 Comments

Lately, the Philippines has — for a number of good reasons — enjoyed the limelight, emerging as an economic bright spot in Asia. Receiving a stamp of approval from the world’s leading rating agencies, namely Fitch, S&P, and Moody’s, the country stands — in label — as a full-fledged investment-grade economy. This, at least theoretically, means…

Development, Education

Filipinos have to WANT a better Philippines badly enough to abolish the pork barrel

October 7, 2013 benign0 15 Comments

I realise now after having read an amusing article recently published by one of the staunch apologists of President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III that there is a fundamental assumption that needs to be questioned — the notion that Filipinos actually want a “better country”. Indeed; Can Filipinos be considered to be a people who…

Crime, Government, Politics, Society