POSTED on Facebook were actual scenes of places flooded in Davao City during the past few days that rain relentlessly fell.
So massive were the rains in the flooded areas like Calinan, Tagakpan, Matina, and Bunawan that roads were virtually converted into rivers with rampaging water.
Well, if flooding usually happens everytime it rains “cats and dogs” in the city, what happened to the supposed flood control projects? It seems all these are made known to the public when the projects are started. But as to the status of the implementation, the people are left facing a blank wall.
And local officials start talking about the projects again when water submerges the city and the people do their usual refrain – complain about the unfinished or unimplemented flood control projects.
Meanwhile, the slopes of the city’s hills in surrounding barangays and whatever plains there are in the peripheries are continuously pursued by residential subdivision developers for their ever-expanding business.
Thanks to the gullible city policymakers, these developers easily have their ways.
And now Davaoeños are complaining about the floods. Anyhow, there is an old adage that says in Cebuano, “Mobaha ra bitaw ug mo-ulan.”
So, why worry? Did we not elect our representatives to the City Council?
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According to reports emanating from the Senate the draft resolution, Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa intends to have the Senate “junk” the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte.
Of course, we are no lawyer. But isn’t it elementary that it is only the court that can junk a case? In the impeachment case versus the VP the Senate is not yet convened as a court. So how can it junk the case?
May be it can if the Senators will “junk” their Constitutional duty of resolving impeachment case against an impeachable official like the Vice President.
Just thinking aloud.
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If the report that US President Donald Trump is sanctioning some judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) including one who is sought by the camp of former President Rodrigo Duterte to be replaced, then the international community cannot be blamed if they call the US President the leading “international bully.”
But what moral authority does the US leader have to “bully” the ICC judges when the said country is not even a member of the organization?
And if he is sanctioning the judges only, how does Trump make it effective, by not allowing them to travel to the US while he is still President? Will he deny US assistance of whatever kind to the countries where the sanctioned ICC judges come from?
Is Trump doing this move to manifest his opposition to the action of the ICC against the leaders of the US’s closest allied countries like the Philippines?
With the Trump scheme we cannot help but be reminded of the US interventions in problems that were supposed to be domestic only, like the war in Vietnam, the Iraq invasion, the Afghanistan war and many other domestic concerns. All were done ibn the name of preserving democracy supposedly.
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This indeed is one good news. Thanks to newly reelected Senator Bong Go.
That is, his sponsored bill in the Senate proposing for free funeral services to members of indigent families. Yes, under Senator Go’s Senate Bill No. 2965, now approved on third reading, once this becomes a law, it is one “concrete step toward helping Filipinos who are burdened not only by grief but also by the financial difficulties of laying their loved ones to rest.”
Now, which other Bill in the Senate – and perhaps even in the House – can beat that as pro-masses?
