Centrist Democracy Political Institute - Items filtered by date: November 2016
Tuesday, 29 November 2016 17:00

ADDRESS TO THE PARTY CONGRESS

I want to extend a very warm welcome to all of you here who have joined the 7th National Congress. I am very pleased to be surrounded by our newly elected officers, our members and fellows and our guests.
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Tuesday, 29 November 2016 12:55

Government to spend P861-B on infra in 2017

MANILA, Nov. 29 - The Duterte administration is spending a whopping P860.7 billion on large-scale infrastructure projects next year, which represents 5.4 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in keeping with its commitment to disperse growth and create enough jobs for Filipinos, especially in the countryside.

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MANILA, Nov. 29 - Two hundred eighty families received an early Christmas gift yesterday as Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Michael Dino led the completion of all Yolanda resettlement sites so that typhoon victims could be transferred before Christmas.

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Thursday, 24 November 2016 11:12

A VIEW FROM THE CENTER: OMG! Hillary lost!

 

THIS is a sequel to last Thursday’s article on Trump winning. But instead of exploring the implications of what happened to Hillary and its consequences on Philippine politics (Nothing! Nada!), I will proceed to assess the US elections–from a purely subjective point of view.

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The economy grew by 7.1 percent in the third quarter of the year, the fastest since the second quarter of 2013 at 7.6 percent – driven largely by the strong performance of manufacturing, trade and real estate, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) announced yesterday.

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MY close friends tell me that at my age, I am proverbially in the “pre-departure area,” as many of them–postwar babies–have actually departed, some surreptitiously in the night, the others with fanfare. My children think differently. They believe, I have now the time to enjoy my grandkids (three boys, two girls and counting) with “many years” ahead of me. My grandkids think Lolo will live forever in that “big house up thehill.” I think otherwise. I intend to attend the weddings of my two granddaughters, Sylvie and Claudia, ages two and one, respectively, and see them produce me my great-grandchildren. I suppose I have approximately 40 more years before my grand exit.

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The Senate will start deliberating in plenary today the proposed P3.35-trillion national budget for 2017 that lawmakers said contains provisions on climate change adaption, fighting illegal drugs, promoting peace, and social protection for the poor.

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WITH about one million new entrants into the Philippine labor pool every year, our economy obviously needs to undergo fundamental restructuring, not just to absorb these new entrants but to offer hope to the tens of millions under- and un-employed Filipino labor force stuck in “endo” jobs, menial work (here and abroad), meaningless and deadend BPO jobs and extremely marginal livelihoods driving tricycles or selling in the streets and worse, blasting fishes or turning the country’s last 3 percentof natural forest into charcoal.

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Healing comes with great cost, especially on the heels of P-noy’s mis-governance. It has been 3 years, and the ghost of the past still haunts the administration who failed to rise from the situation. It was an ugly scenario, when the former DILG secretary Mar Roxas denied assistance, or to put it right, made it difficult for the LGUs to gather support just because they hailed from the rival parties. That was a painful demonstration and reality of political stalemates in the Philippine system taken into the most inappropriate of situations, in the middle of a calamity.

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Tuesday, 08 November 2016 14:17

Building a nation, fast

 

WHEN we build the country today, we should build it fast and build it for the Filipinos, not the oligarchs! For ultimately, the owners are the taxpayers. The first protocol therefore of Build. Build. Build. is, damn the oligarchs who cause delays and create problems to protect their turfs.

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