ATIENZA, Francis Gabriel M. 2014180005/CE/2 SS15/A5

ATIENZA, Francis Gabriel M.
2014180005/CE/2
SS15/A5
I.
We all know the issue about the opening of the balikbayan boxes
of the Bureau of Customs. And as a protest of the OFWs to this, they
planned to make August 28, 2015 as a No Remittance Day.
According to them, this is to for the government to notice them and
their side about the said issue. But instead the government just laugh
this serious thing and misjudge the no remittance day and said that
this doesnt scare them because it wont even directly affect the
economy. And this statement is quite questionable.
The said statement may come from the past No remittance day
of the OFWs. September 9, 2013 also became a no remittance day.
This is in protest to the pork barrel system. This happened and there
was no direct impact to the economy because the money to be
remitted on the said date was just postponed and same effect still
happened.
II.
The religious group, Iglesia ni Cristo, made a protest that started

in front of the Department of Justice compound along Padre Faura
Street, Manila last August 27, 2015. The protests were held following
the filing of criminal complaint by former Iglesia ni Cristo minister
Isaias Samson, who alleged that he and his family was harassed and
illegally detained upon orders of the religious group's officials. And end
up in EDSA. It is a 5-day protest wanting the government to separate
the state from the church.
Last January 15-19, 2015, the pope of the Roman Catholic Church
visited the country that cause heavy traffics in the city of Manila even
though everything was already organized and some roads were closed.
The visit and the traffic caused by the papal visit last for 5 days also
like as what the protest of the INC. The INC said that we shouldnt
complain to the traffic cause by their protest because when the papal
visit happened they didnt react to it. But the defence is that during the
papal visit everyone was notified and plans are set to make things in
order unlike to the INC rally, it was unexpected.
III.
Last July, it was hot in the news about the 50 forty footer
containers of imported garbage from Canada that were brought here in
the country and currently dumped in Tarlac. The waste already lasted
for two years. It was dumped since 2013 but the issue just exploded
now. It was said in the report that the government of Canada cant
accept their wastes back due to their domestic laws. Instead, they
promised that the garbages expenses in processing will all be handled
by Canada.
Its not the first time that this issue come up. Way back in 1999,
around 120 container vans of trash from Japan also threatened
relations with the Philippines. But that wound healed fairly quickly. On
December 31, 1999, just 5 months after the vans were intercepted in
the Manila port, Japan chartered a ship to return them to Japan. Earlier
that week, the day before Christmas, Japan ambassador to the
Philippines Yoshihisa Ara told media that his country committed to
complete the removal of all the waste from the Philippines. The
Philippine Foreign Secretary then, Domingo Siazon, was quoted by
Japanese media as saying the Philippines was very much satisfied the
swift action taken by the Japanese government.
IV.
PNP Highway Patrol Group deployed 150 policemen last August 7,

2015 to ease the traffic along EDSA, which is one of the most traffic
places in the country. It is said that in the first few days of the handling
of traffic of HPG in EDSA was successful. Hopefully, this is not just on
the start.
The MMDA deployed 60 women traffic auxiliary force along EDSA

to manage the traffic flow in the critical areas along the 23-kilometer
EDSA. They believe the women are a lot more skilful in handling
problems and they believe that it can include that traffic flow in EDSA.
This was effective last September 8, 2014. Months later, this traffic
women officers were set back and the original men traffic officers were
back again. So it means that the plan of MMDA was useless and
V.
ineffective.
The Disbursement Acceleration Program was questioned by
many critics and politicians because it was said the DAP was
unconstitutional. This is the biggest issue that the President is facing in
regards to corruption. One conclusion is that the Supreme Court did
not
declare
the entire
Disbursements
Acceleration Program
as
unconstitutional, as expressed in Justice Leonens opening statement

that she agree that some acts and practices covered by the
Disbursement Acceleration Program, as articulated in the National
Budget Circular No. 541 and in related executive issuances and
memoranda are unconstitutional. Note that he actually used the word
some and not the whole program.
One of the biggest corruption issue of former president Gloria
Arroyo is the NBN-ZTE scandal for the approval of a nationwide
broadband network (NBN) deal worth $329.4 million. It became
suspicions were first aired in April 2007 when the ZTE contract was
reported to have been stolen just hours after its formal signing in
China. In the following months, the regime refused to provide copies of
the contract to the media even as opposition congressmen claimed a
cover-up and corruption. By October, the scandal was in full blow. Joey
De Venecia, son of the lower house speaker Jose De Venecia, testified
in a Senate investigative hearing that the NBN deal was massively
VI.
overpriced by $197 million.

According to an interview to Senator Bam Aquino last August 19,
2015, that the telecommunications companies may be limiting
consumers internet experience because of their fair use policy, but

consumers have no choice but to agree to it because there's no other
option. The policy involves slowing the speed of a users internet
connection once he or she reaches a certain volume of data, removing
meaning of unlimited surfing. In a senate hearing about the said
issue of internet, no one came out among the senators except for
Senator Bam Aquino and seems like the others is not interested in the
issue which they just underestimating the issue.
A Senate hearing leaded by Senator Bam Aquino last September
16, 2014 which they looked into the possible causes of, and solutions
for, the country's deplorable Internet speeds. Earlier in 2014, an
independent study revealed that the Philippines has the poorest and
slowest LTE broadband access and coverage in the world. Having this
hearing happened but it seems like it just went to nothing and the
VII.
Philippines internet speed remains the same.

Torre de Manila, DMCI one-tower condominium development
which is located in the city of Manila, is under the hot seat for being
the photo bomber on the view of the Rizal Monument in Luneta Park.
The 49-storey building, located along Taft Avenue, Manila City is set to
rise high behind the monument statue of the countrys national hero,
Dr. Jose Rizal.
Richard King, chair of J. King and Sons Co. Inc., the firm behind
the project of the Boracays largest hotel-condominium project closed
his ears in the orders from the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources or the DENR in regards in stopping the construction of his
project, which environment officials said will destroy a wetland in the
countrys top beach destination. The P1.2 billion Boracay Crown
Regency Hotel and Convention Center will be the biggest hotel in
Boracay and will put Boracay on the world map. The project will add
457
hotel
rooms
in
Boracay,
and
its
convention
center
will
accommodate 1,800 people. This project continued and now open to

the public since 2010.
VIII.
In relation to the kidnapping case in Bauan, Batangas, Governor

Vilma Santos Recto, in a press conference last Friday, appealed to the
public not to panic and for parents to be vigilant in monitoring their
children. Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles started a chain text
message saying that the news of kidnapping of children in the
province, most especially in Batangas City, is very alarming. Please
alert everyone especially parents, elders and schools on this serious
danger. The children may be victims of sex or organ trade syndicates.
The Batangenos are alarmed to these kidnappers and afraid in taking
their organs.
Although most organ transplant tourism has been illegal in The
Philippines since 2008, the country is struggling to eradicate the
problem. The Department of Health has issued two administrative
orders to fight organ trafficking, in particular the selling of kidneys to
foreign patients last July 2010. The system of this organ transplant
tourism is running in the black market. Syndicates kidnap people and
force to take the needed organ of the victim and sell it in a very high
IX.
price in the foreigners.

The Davao Death Squads or DDS, is a vigilante group active in
Davao City in the Philippines. The group is allegedly responsible for
summary executions of individuals suspected of petty crimes and
dealing in drugs in Davao. It has been estimated that the group is
responsible for the murder or disappearance of between 1,020 and
1,040 people between 1998 and 2008. And the DDS is said to be still
active right now because of the extrajudicial killings that happens in
Davao. The squad is alleged leaded by the current mayor Rodrigo
Duterte but still not proven by anyone.
A robbery suspect lies naked and writhing on the cement floor of
a Manila police precinct with his genitals bound while a plainclothes
policeman pulls a rope and whips him. All the while a uniformed officer
stood by and watched. The torture was recorded on video via a mobile
phone and was leaked to the internet and aired over the biggest
television station in the country on Aug. 17, 2010. The identity of the
torture victim was never known as his body was never recovered,
though several families claim the man to be a relative based on his
physical appearance in the video. The policemen involved who were
then suspects for the crime were immediately relieved, but just one
year after, they were seen reporting back to work, while an indictment
X.
by the justice department was issued.

The government allotted 30 million pesos for the rehabilitation of
the Building 14 of New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City. Department of
Justice reopened last July 15, 2015 the renovated building 14 to serve
as a high security complex for high profile inmates. Secretary Leila de
Lima said that they placed CCTV cameras in detention cells and
jammers to assure that cellular phones wont be used in the prison.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima was shocked last December 8,
2014 when she found that a convicted drug lord had converted his
quarters at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City into a luxury
apartment complete with air-conditioning, sauna and entertainment
showroom.
De
Lima
led
agents
from
the
National
Bureau
of
Investigation, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Philippine

National Police on a surprise raid of the countrys main prison facility
following reports that a convicted drug trafficker Peter Co was still
running his business from his cell.

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The religious group, Iglesia ni Cristo, made a protest that started

PNP Highway Patrol Group deployed 150 policemen last August 7,

The MMDA deployed 60 women traffic auxiliary force along EDSA

unconstitutional, as expressed in Justice Leonens opening statement

overpriced by $197 million.

consumers internet experience because of their fair use policy, but

Philippines internet speed remains the same.

accommodate 1,800 people. This project continued and now open to

In relation to the kidnapping case in Bauan, Batangas, Governor

price in the foreigners.

by the justice department was issued.

Investigation, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Philippine

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