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Filipinos have started to realize that the Local Government Code that promoted the devolution of various programs from national to local government was one huge mistake, and nowhere is that huge mistake more evident than in the area of agriculture.
Allies of Speaker Martin Romualdez have been busy explaining why Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Davao Congressman Isidro Ungab were stripped of their deputy speaker positions. Then they did the media rounds justifying their counter offensive against former president Rodrigo Duterte for attacking Congress. If that is the case, why were the same congressmen silent when Mayors for Good Governance openly talked about corruption in government, including Congress?
After assisting my caretaker to get serious medical attention in a government hospital, I discovered that the Philippine public health system works. It is complicated, but it works.
With the appointment of businessman Francisco “Kiko” Laurel as full time Secretary of Agriculture, the tables are now turned.
The idea has long been talked about, suggested and promoted by various individuals and groups, particularly former secretary Manny Piñol, but nobody in government or Malacañang was willing to pick up on the suggestion that the country should adopt solar powered stand-alone irrigation systems.
They are trying hard, working harder, but there are still things lost in translation. While the major domestic airlines in the Philippines are busy informing and warning passengers about what to do and what not to do when they travel by air, our TSA have been more than usual very strict, thorough and professional as they process passengers and baggage going through the NAIA terminals.
In case you didn’t know, there is now a long stretch of road that has been renamed after a feisty, controversial, feared but admired senator. The road formerly known as Agham Road that stretches from North Avenue, traversing through Quezon Avenue all the way to East Avenue, will now be called Senator Miriam P. Defensor Santiago Avenue.