The Inquirer Property section last Nov. 26, which had a large spread touting Century Properties, showed its top officials wreathed in smiles with Donald Trump. One gathers they went to New York not long ago to pay the then real estate mogul (now US president) for the use of his brand on their buildings. Their press release read that their properties
“… (allow) Filipinos… to imbibe the Donald Trump prestige…” It ends with the line that Century Properties reflects “the company’s innate sophistication, class and appreciation for the finer things.”
Readers are supposed to be awed by all this wealth in our impoverished country where the majority wouldn’t know a fine thing if it were thrown in their faces.
Frankly I was more awed by another section in the Property pages that featured Tony Meloto and his Gawad Kalinga project which benefits those with less in life.
Life is indeed full of ironies in this topsy-turvy world.
CELESTE T. CRUZ,
celestetcruz@gmail.com