The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
Civil society organizations and consumers from the Power for People Coalition (P4P) who petitioned against Meralco’s Power Supply Agreements launched “Nagmamahal, Meralco “, a campaign contesting the company’s sweetheart deals with companies powered by dirty and costly energy.
Points of View & Perspectives
August, 2017
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6 August
Boracay residents appeal to Secretary Cimatu
It was the best island in the world in 2012, according to the prestigious international travel magazine Travel + Leisure.
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6 August
New York City—what makes you pine to be there?
Mention of New York City would often bring on an “Ooowww…” with a slight rise of the brow. It’s not unusual. True, New York easily fulfills a dream, of “seeing and believing”, but one could also be startled finding the ordinary.
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6 August
Art as tool to spread message of peace
Zamboanga City—Tausug painter Rameer Amilasan Tawasil is using the canvass to bat for peace, drawing inspiration from his dark childhood marred by bloodshed and the chaos of the Moro rebellion.
July, 2017
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9 July
Health officials warned: Big Business pressure is on
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.
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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 …