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Expecting good press for bad performance - Gotcha
by by JariusBondoc - May 27, 2000 - 12:00am
You can take off your earplugs now. After three days of ranting and raving into radio and TV mikes, Malacanang aides and LAMP legislators have had their fill of bashing Time. They seem self-satisfied with how...
Antediluvian excuses for today's Metro floods - Gotcha
by by JariusBondoc - May 22, 2000 - 12:00am
Floods are upon us again. Just like last year. Just like the year before that. Just like last decade. Arrgh! Makes Metro Manilans wonder where hundreds of millions of pesos in flood tax that government collects...
Headway, hitches in drive for cheap drugs - Gotcha
by by JariusBondoc - May 17, 2000 - 12:00am
Public clamor for cheap medicine is bearing fruit. United Lab, the biggest Filipino drug maker, has cut prices of its hottest-selling items by 10 to 40 percent. The products are essential or life-saving drugs...
Soldiers should fight, not run the economy - Gotcha
by by JariusBondoc - May 3, 2000 - 12:00am
At first glance, the mistaken seizure of 314 motorbikes from Norkis Trading's compound was a minor mix-up. On closer look, it's an example of the economic mismanagement that's turning businessmen away from Joseph...
Why not an exchange for oil, drugs, dairy? - Gotcha
by by JariusBondoc - March 20, 2000 - 12:00am
Not one of Energy Secretary Mario Tiaoqui's arguments washes. He calls the setting up of an Oil Exchange "a return to regulation." He claims it will build a new bureaucratic layer. He says it won't work. To...
Confrontational mien will polarize society - Gotcha
by by JariusBondoc - March 11, 2000 - 12:00am
Presidential advisers presented Joseph Estrada two options. He can either suspend SEC chief Perfecto Yasay and charge him with economic sabotage for trying to stop Wednesday's stock market trading. Or he could...
Stinky Payatas needs attention, not Forbes - Gotcha
by by JariusBondoc - February 28, 2000 - 12:00am
Is MMDA chief Jejomar Binay squeezing himself where he's not wanted, yet not acting where he's needed? Forbes Park residents say Binay is the political force driving to reclassify their McKinley Road from residential...
Spreading the guilt around, a usual crisis-PR defense - Gotcha
by by JariusBondoc - February 26, 2000 - 12:00am
"Antolin Oreta is presidential adviser on economic zones, not on infrastructures." Thus did Presidential Spokesman Jerry Barican defend the award of a P757-million public contract to LAMP Sen. Tessie Aquino's...
Osmeña's pork taken from local gov't funds - Gotcha
by by JariusBondoc - February 9, 2000 - 12:00am
When will authorities act -- when it's all too late? Rich and poor squatters from Fairview and Lagro, Quezon City, are invading La Mesa Dam, cutting down trees, erecting poultry and pig pens, and spoiling Metro Manila's...
Balancing off Ronnie, Lenny with a 3rd man - Gotcha
by by JariusBondoc - January 24, 2000 - 12:00am
Catholic bishops have it all wrong in asking that Joseph Estrada stop his sons from running for public office. They say he promised walang kamag-anak. But that pertained to government deals, not the right to...
Spray-paint Stanley Ho's Jumbo Palace Restaurant - Gotcha
by by JariusBondoc - January 22, 2000 - 12:00am
Radio listeners chuckled when I broached the idea on Mainit na Isyu (DZXL, 558 kHz, Mon.-Fri., 7:15 a.m.). I meant to sound serious. No less than Alex Melchor of President Estrada's Anti-Organized Crime Commission...
Successor generation questions each other - Gotcha
by by JariusBondoc - January 17, 2000 - 12:00am
CLARK SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE -- One of the 150 delegates chuckled that what they obviously don't lack is self-esteem. All under 50, they consider themselves leaders in their fields: business and technology, politics...
A Cabinet superbody or a counterbalance? - Gotcha
by by JariusBondoc - January 8, 2000 - 12:00am
About 100 next-generation leaders will gather at Clark Field next week for a forum on what RP will be like in the 21st century. Convergence in the Millennium will strive to forecast what Philippines will emerge...
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