Water Crisis

With global warming already eating into our shorelines, you would think our planners, would have a plan for dealing with its impact on our fresh waters resources. Studies have already shown that rising sea levels will transform our fresh water aquifers into murky salty water within the next 10 years, and our National Irrigation Administration, doesn’t even have a plan to solve this problem.

Singapore for example has no rivers or lakes, but it has 14 huge reservoirs for impounding rain water for its daily use. While Southern Leyte which has several large rivers and lakes doesn’t have a single reservoir.

In other words all our fresh water ends up into our seas and oceans. Ano Ba Yan?

Teaching Them Early

If you still believe we have a rosy political future with no vote-buying and character assassination, then you are a supreme optimist. Why? Because in the last SK election in Southern Leyte some candidates were buying votes at P2,000 per voter . And guess what, they were mostly the children of incumbent political leaders.

OMNIBUS

One of the best info-tech companies in the city is OMNIBUS which in latin means “For Us.” OMNIBUS which is owned by 41 year Jervis Calapre and his 39 year old wife Brejune Bliss started operating in June 2004. It sells high quality computers and provides internet services to its growing number of clients. Starting with a capitol of only P200,000,

OMNIBUS is now a thriving business enterprise which is synonymous with Info- management technology. The couple has two children; BJ who is 7 years old and Bella who is just 2 months old.

No Losers in This Election

The good news is there will be no losers in this May election. There will only be Winners and Whiners. The later referring to those who can’t accept defeat, and insist they were cheated.

Poor Sportsmanship

If you are perennial loser, you could make history by conceding you lost to your opponent, because he tried harder and won the voters trust.

The biggest whiner in the 2010 election was DILG Secretary Mar Roxas, who ran that year for Vice President, and lost to Jejomar Binay. His election protest against Binay is still pending at the Comelec and will hound the Vice President till the 2016 Presidential Elections, when the two are expected to contest the presidency.

Local LP should Re-invent Itself

After its expected humiliation at the polls this May 13, the local LP chapter should re-invent itself. It cannot campaign under the slogan “reformed” when all its presenting to voters is the same candidates who were rejected in previous elections. What Dundeet and former Governor Rosette Lerias should do is lobby for government positions which they could then use to obtain even more projects for the province. Instead of criticizing the Mercado brothers, they should show their good will, by helping them make southern Leyte an even more progressive province.

Election Queries

Since the local election is just around the corner we are raising the following questions:

(1) What is Mayor Rico Rentuza campaigning for

(a) is it for change, and if so what kind and

(b) is he running for congressman, and if so, under what party?

(2) Do you have to fill-in all the circles in the ballot for it to be accepted by the voting machine? Will it actually spit it out if you don’t?

(3) Will there be enough teachers to help senior citizens with bad eye sights and can’t see the circles on the ballots? And what about those in wheel chairs, who still believe their vote, could decide the election? Will they be given preferential treatment and placed at the head of the line? And last, but not least, will there be special ramps for their wheel chairs to pass through and oxygen tanks if they pass out?

(4) Will there be enough clean flush toilets nearby for those with Malignant Bladder Syndrome or MBS? Or the even more serious Erratic Bowel Syndrome or EBS?

(5) We are probably the only country in the world that has a Constitutional Office called the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and we still don’t have the faintest idea what it’s there for. Would their funny looking spokesman with the beard please explain to us what they are actually being paid to do?

(6) And while we’re on the subject, could someone at COMELEC give some multi-vitamins to their harassed Chairman Sixto Brillantes. He looks like he’s always drowsy and about to fall asleep.