A press statement sent to my inbox recently from the office of Rep. Angelica Natasha Co., BHW Partylist and chair of the committee on welfare of children, cites the benefits of  ROI (return on investments) in childcare and care providers as “healthier children, productive adults.”

Rep. Co cites ROI in childcare and care providers

The Senate’s probe into some P121 billion worth of unfinished irrigation projects must be done in earnest, as the farmers are at the losing end of the rope, not to mention taxpayers who had to forcibly shell out taxes that they expected would be used for worthwhile endeavors that would benefit them as well but did not.

Probing the P121-B unfinished irrigation projects

It’s good that the Department of Transportation has again required people to wear face masks on trains—MRT, LRT and PNR—because they are too overcrowded during peak hours—before and after work and school—and even if not airconditioned is risky enough for spreading viruses and bacteria.

 Keep those face masks on 

I don’t know what has become of the Department of Agriculture, forecasting pork shortages that could only be used by shrewd traders and vendors as an excuse to hoard supplies to create such a scenario and then jack up prices to their hearts’ delight.

Pork shortages, here we go again

Now that the country is essentially dry and hot is when local and national government agencies must focus on removing plastic wastes on drains and waterways that, during heavy rains, would cause heavy flooding in entire towns or cities.

Firms using plastics must pay for pollution

As the October 30 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections approach, expect the political scene to heat up with the same intensity as the weather’s heat index.

Politics starts heating up

Let me quote a press statement sent to me by Rep. Alfred delos Santos, house deputy minority leader and Ang Probinsiyano partylist representative: The poor do not feel decline of inflation to 6.6 percent.

What easing inflation?

The NEDA mandate encourages a whole-of-government approach by directing national government agencies to automate and computerize their databases. This will promote data sharing among government agencies in order to eliminate the unnecessary duplication of document submission. 


Digital facilitation in processing gov't projects

No wonder those high-profile smugglers—some already identified in the Senate (both past and current)—have persisted in their illicit trade practices because the law against agricultural smuggling has been too soft and easy for them to circumvent. Also, there were no special courts designed for such cases, hence they go their malpractices as if they owned the market.

Senators eye tighter agri-smuggling laws

I am fond of taking airplanes and traveling around the country, but I shudder at the thought of the glitches and hassles of going via the national gateway—the NAIA—with all the consequential delayed flights, glitches in the air transport communication systems, and now the Labor Day brownout (or blackout is more apt a term) that lasted from past 1 a.m. to past 8 a.m.

The hassles of travelling via Naia

The Bare Truth column by OpinYon News columnist, Rose De La Cruz.

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