IF THERE is one administration critic whose bashes can be considered “most scathing” it is former Commission on Elections commissioner lawyer Rowena Guanzon.
Her latest tirade posted in the social media was against resigned former House Speaker Martin Romualdez. In her post she asked, “Where could Martin Looter be now?”
Very simple and equally very short question. But certainly it packs a lot of wallop on the cousin of President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.
We are just wondering if she is that aggressive in her criticism of the administration, including her specifying of persons in blasting the administration, had her Partylist group with her as the top nominee for Congressman got a seat in the Lower House?
Would the fiery woman lawyer not succumb to joining patronage politics and enjoy its perks? Again, just wondering… and asking, as well.
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We assume that the post of former senator and leading critic of former President Rodrigo Duterte Antonio Trillanes was the basis of Davao City Congressman Pulong Duterte in his own post. Trillanes posted a photo of him posing outside the ICC detention cell of former President Rodrigo Duterte with the caption that says, “Relax lang po, nasa loob pa si Duts. Naghahanapbuhay lang ang abogado niya.”
Pulong’s response also posted on Facebook, “Si Trililing pala pinadala ng mga BANGAG para mag ‘welfare check’ kay PRRD. Baka nagkalat ka ng virus diyan, di ka pa naman nagpa inject ng anti-rabies shot mo….”
Well, that is how social media now becomes a battleground for political adversaries. And it seems there are no rules that define how it should be fought and how toxic the means that can be used in attacking the enemy.
Amid these exchanges of barbs between Trilling and Pulong, and the trip of the former to The Hague, Netherlands, is there truth to reports that the former Senator was the one sent by the administration of Marcos Jr. to conduct a “welfare check” on detained former President Duterte? This is the claim of the Davao first district solon and son of FPRRD.
If true, then there may already be some kind of rapprochement between the incumbent President and also his erstwhile critic.
Could this be enough indication to believe the circulating reports that it will be Trillanes who will take over the post vacated by resigned Independent Commission on Infrastructure (ICI) adviser Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong? The ICI is now investigating the grossly anomalous, graft-laden flood control projects rocking the administration of President Bongbong Marcos. Magalong is ICI adviser.
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Councilor Myrna Dalodo Ortiz of Davao City’s third district called for stricter protocols and standards for tourism operations in the City.
The lady councilor sounded this call in the aftermath of the disaster that happened at the Mini Asik-Asik Falls in Barangay Carmen, Baguio District. The waterfall is nestled on the mountains of Carmen, part of a large protected area mandated by the government.
Some two weeks ago a group of supposedly “outreach” volunteers went to the area not far from the waterfall reportedly to do outreach activities for the people in that sitio of the mountain barangay.
Unfortunately, some leaders of the group decided to see the waterfall with several others risking to bathe in the clear and cold water several meters away from the dropping spot of the water from the upstream.
As fate would have it, a flash flood suddenly occurred with hardly any indication of warning. The swirling water currents caught some bathers who were trying to outrace the flood before it could sweep them.
Several were lucky to escape but still they suffered bruises and other injuries. But there were others who did not make it and swallowed by the rampaging water.
That deadly incident became a major source of grief to families of those who drowned, as well as those who were injured.
The incident triggered Councilor Ortiz’s urgent call for the implementation of stricter protocols. While the call is definitely a reactive one because deaths and injuries have already happened, still we believe that there is nothing too late if it is for the welfare of the people.
It is, however, sad to think that resorting to such measures is remembered only after the occurrence of untoward incidents that cost lives, physical injuries and damage to properties.
Indeed the usual Filipino trait of making the sign of the cross every after a blinding lightning or deafening thunder blast.
