Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Binanggit na kwento ng kaguro habang ito ay nakasakay sa jeep. May nag-uusap sa kanyang tapat na pagkaupo habang padaan ang sasakyan sa Sidcor Sunday market sa Lung Center sa Quezon Avenue. Tinanong ng isa, “Bakit ang daming sasakyan?” Sagot ng kausap, “May tiangge kasi riyan sa loob ng ospital.…
Category: Commentary
Mining for whom?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com One could not help but see the irony in this week. Baguio city hosted the 58th staging of the Mine Safety and Environment week from November 8-10. And it was no small affair. The gathering was attended by seven envoys: Australian ambassador Roderick Richard Campbell Smith, Brazilian ambassador Alcides Gastao Rostand…
Can China crack US hold on IMF?
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star This week in Cannes, France, the Group of 20 biggest economies or G-20 – representing 85 percent of the world’s economy, 80 percent of trade, and two-thirds of population — holds its sixth summit meeting since 2008 to deal with the global financial-economic crisis.…
All-out deception
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The Philippines has a former advertising executive for tourism secretary in Ramon Jimenez. In his TV and other media appearances, Jimenez exudes confidence from every pore as he carries on in his American-accented English about his plans to turn this country into a tourist haven, mostly by…
No truth, no justice
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld President Benigno Aquino’s “all-out justice” slogan, coined by his tourism secretary (an advertising man before joining government), seems to be catching on. As a tagline, it aims to capture the administration’s purported commitment to peaceful means, i.e. peace negotiations, to resolve the armed conflict with the Moro Islamic Liberation…
Gentrifikasyon ng Divisioria at shopping
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Kilala ang Divisoria bilang lugar na bagsakan ng mga produkto. Dati ay mga gulay at prutas na inaangkat sa food bowls ng Kordilyera hanggang Mindanao, maging ng spesyalisadong tanim tulad ng bawang sa Ilokos at niyog sa Bikol. Ngayon ay dry goods na galing sa China at iba pang lugar…
Shared lives, shared deaths
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star This week I was in Kidapawan City to attend the wake and funeral of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, the now-famous martyred Italian missionary about whom I wrote last week. I stayed a day longer to visit another wake in Arakan town, Fr. Tentorio’s parish, where…
Fiddlers by the Pasig
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The Roman emperor Nero was supposed to have fiddled while ancient Rome burned for nine days. But if he did play any instrument at all while much of the city was destroyed, he would have picked at a lute or a lyre, the fiddle, or violin, not…
Maalikaya at pagtatapos ng era
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Sa dalas kong mapadaan sa Quezon Avenue, madalas kong matunghayan ang apat na palapag na gusali. Gusto kong magpugay tuwing dumadaan ako rito, parang ginagawang taimtim na kagyat na dasal o pag-krus ng Katoliko kapag napadaan sa simbahan. Pero nitong mga nakaraang buwan, ang gusali ay inabandona na. Wala na…
All-out deception
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The shrill call to wage “all-out war”, in reaction to the overwhelming defeat of a platoon of special action forces on a mission to “arrest” a rebel Moro commander in Basilan, is nothing but pure hogwash. For one it is obvious, except to the military top brass and to…
Do we really want a just and lasting peace?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The Aquino government, and the media have been declaring that it is committed to peace, especially after 19 soldiers were killed in a firefight in Albarka, October 18, and another seven more soldiers and policemen two days after in Zamboanga, Sibugay. Despite the calls from the hawks in government – remnants…