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By Peter Wallace
I talked about the importance of leadership recently (Inquirer, 2/28/13) and how it determines the path of a country using the two Koreas as a dramatic example. Leadership is particularly important in a hierarchical society like the Philippines. On the larger scale, it can determine where a country goes, but it can also affect what happens in a particular sector, or a specific issue. And it can affect not only that sector or issue but a wider sphere through indirect impact.
Posted: March 13th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
In a retreat conducted a long, long time ago for an Ateneo graduating class, which I attended, the retreat master, Fr. James Reuter, SJ, planted in our minds the idea that there are two kinds of Ateneans—the real ones and the fake ones. The real ones are those who believe that “they are men for others” (Ateneo was not coed then). The fake ones are those who believe that “they are better than others.”
Posted: March 8th, 2013 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
By Peter Wallace
Let me take last week’s column a bit further. We have a President who is changing society, or trying to. Political games he plays (successfully, I might add), but a trapo he is not. His “daang matuwid” has resonated in the public arena, and his honest lifestyle is setting an example for many to follow. Attacking corruption at the top is working, but it now has to be expanded. We all know who the corrupt are, so the President now has to widen his net and take them down, too.
Posted: February 21st, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Rina Jimenez-David
He can’t wait to leave government service. Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras says that as soon as he turns over to President Aquino all remaining “deliverables,” before P-Noy’s term comes to an end in 2016, he hopes he will walk away from his post and return to the private sector. The only reason he joined [...]
Posted: January 17th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By John Nery
In August 2010, I tried my hand at classifying the types of criticism directed at President Aquino, then a mere six weeks in office. In “‘Politico,’ ‘Inglisero,’ ‘hacendero,’” I identified three emerging patterns in the criticism.
Posted: October 1st, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
President Aquino is about to complete his first three years in office (one-half of his term of office) by the end of May next year. However, I regret to say that up to the present he has not displayed enough guts to properly lead his people. On the contrary, he failed as a leader to show sincerity in most of his actuations.
Posted: September 13th, 2012 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
By Kimberly M. Francia
Everyone is born blind—that is, oblivious to the world that doesn’t concern us. We who were born with a silver spoon in our mouth choose to see the world to which we are accustomed. In my local church there is a youth group of which I have been a member for almost five years. In this group are people from all walks of life and social classes which I had considered beneath me. They seemed so different from me in many ways: Most of them could not converse fluently in English; many came from public schools that I considered “jeje” or generally not worth my time.
Posted: September 13th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Edilberto C. de Jesus
Nothing like the sudden, dramatic death of a righteous man to provoke pangs of guilt among those who refused to render him his due. Some members of the Commission on Appointments and their constituents are now turning cartwheels to convince the public that they supported, all along, the confirmation of Jesse Robredo as interior and local government secretary. I do not believe Jesse was unduly bothered by the delay in his confirmation, nor would he be impressed by its posthumous award.
Posted: August 24th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Conrado de Quiros
Ma. Lourdes Sereno had a very interesting thing to say to the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) when it was her turn to be interviewed last week. Appointing an “outsider” as chief justice, she said, was like appointing a civilian rather than a general to lead an army to war. The notion of appointing an outsider to patch up the fissures or rifts within the Supreme Court was a case of trying to solve a nonexistent problem. “What is there to heal? There is nothing to fix.
Posted: July 31st, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Amando Doronila
Stung by the ridicule of “Noynoying”—the term used by street protesters to lampoon his “do nothing” work ethic—President Aquino went on overdrive last Tuesday to announce that he had ordered the speed-up of eight infrastructure projects this year to pump up the sluggish economic growth. The announcement was made at the Philippine Investment Forum, where [...]
Posted: March 29th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Juan L. Mercado
“An Open Letter to the Filipino People” was how Carmen L. Puertollano titled her message to President Benigno Aquino III. A US agriculture department staff member for 35 years, she retired here in 2006.
Posted: December 12th, 2011 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
The real causes of the grinding poverty in our province is not the lack of investments and “localized brain drain” (“Masbate: Paradise in a pool of blood,” Inquirer, 9/22/11) but the corruption and grave acts of injustice committed by our home-grown politicians. Even before and during the dark years of martial rule, Masbate was virtually [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2011 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
