Al Jazeera feature documentary

It is more fun criticizing

Rizal Philippines  |  October 28, 2014



The Al Jazeera series on Manila slums is a big or should be a big embarrassment for our Manila officials and Phil government and they must conduct a media blitz to neutralize the negative image it has created worldwide; and to do steps to remove squalor filth and poverty in our midst.

Big words yes, pragmatic though  We have done much to touch the lives of people living in the slum.   As bad as in Africa or in India.

Let us help.  Let us have progress trickle down in the slum areas.

Mayor Erap para sa mahihirap.  Magpakita ka naman ng himala!!!

Erap lifts Manila truck ban; truckers thank Erap; other issues unresolved

It is more fun criticizing

Rizal  Philippines  | September 15, 2014

From Inquirer - Erap lifts truck ban indefinitely



Executive Order 67

Mayor Joseph Estrada lifts truck ban indefinitely  in Manila as of noon Saturday with his signing of Executive Order 67 and leaves management of traffic to the national government  (MMDA)  He and vice mayor Isko Moreno Dumagoso  warns the public of more traffic  (Various schemes are in place to solve the congestion caused by the truck ban:   the trade lane at Roxas blvd, the one truck lane policy.


The Office of the President are very diplomatic in pointing out that the port and container congestion is due to the increase in imports and economic growth of the country.  So with office of the City Mayor.

Congestion and the truck ban

The Manila bus ban - will Isko and Erap lose if elections were held today?

Social and political criticisms

Rizal  | PHL  |  July 30, 2013

The bus ban in Manila is clearly a big issue now because it is inconveniencing a lot of commuters:  students and workers, well mostly from suburbs and from Manila too.  The irate public would surely express their displeasure by not voting the two top guns in Manila if elections were held today.

The question again is who has the right to grant or remove franchise from utility companies:  the LGU or the franchising body?

It has also become a turf battle?  Who wins or loses is immaterial in this turf war:   the general public is the loser