The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
Media circles were recently abuzz with talks that big business interests have given the green light for a well-funded, well-orchestrated campaign to put pressure on key public health sector officials.
Points of View & Perspectives
July, 2017
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9 July
Power and energy as organic and metaphorical reality
With a coastline that could gird a distance as far as the western hemisphere and back, hence, abundant water, wind and tidal waves—and year-round sunlight—how could it not generate power from its most natural renewable resources? Apparently, it does and it has. According to a country report by Noel R. Estoperez for the Philippines at the Hangzhou Regional Center for …
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2 July
Congress should scrutinize multibillion telco deal
We are all for improving the quality of internet service in our country considering that it has one of, if not the slowest internet speed service in the world.
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2 July
The far distance to my being a Canadian
“Who is a Canadian?” I had to ask, noticing that every other person I meet would either be American, German, French, Scot, Irish, Polish, even Estonian, as well as, Italian, Portuguese, South American, and what about, Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Thais, Vietnamese, and Filipinos “like you”, of course—they’d point out—among many more immigrants and refugees, giving away my ignorance.
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2 July
PDP 2017-2022: Unchanged market fundamentalism
While lucid, the Philippine Development Plan is still wrong and will keep the Philippines backward. Three major flaws immediately come to mind, all of which stem from the plan’s obsolete market fundamentalism.First, the plan avoids correcting the severe asset inequities and income imbalances that keep millions of Filipinos marginalized from meaningful economic activity. This means that all the plan’s rhetoric …
June, 2017
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11 June
An unlikely journey
Parades, after which blisters from thin-soled shoes on gravel walks on the way back home in my Girl Scout uniform, a Philippine paper flag pasted on a stick that we waved through the camino real—by then, limp if not hanging by a tip—would be all I remember of Philippine Independence Day in my growing up. Later as university freshman in …
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11 June
PDP recycles failed policies—Ibon
The Duterte administration came to power almost a year ago on the promise of change.
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4 June
Government should review state witness status of Ruby Tuason
While we were closely monitoring the news about the Resorts World Manila attack that killed 38 persons, detained lawyer Jessica Lucila “Gigi” Reyes, quietly asked the Sandiganbayan to grant her bail for the plunder charges related to the alleged P10-billion pork barrel scam.
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4 June
Where a child is schooled: Does it really matter?
Not a parent myself, I’ve had a few vicarious experiences of this phase in parenting only recently, like hearing about three top graduating students at Point Grey, a public school here in Vancouver, already accepted in Ivy League universities, one of them, a girl at Harvard. Two weeks ago in the bus to the train station, Jeanine, daughter of a …
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4 June
Ibon seeks progressive tax system
Government should be willing to forge a genuinely progressive tax system instead of adopting one that remains pro-rich, research institute Ibon said.