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Thursday, December 30, 2004
Editorials: As the new year begins
We are near the penultimate moment of the current year. As the seconds of 2004 tick away, and with the inevitable entry of 2005, we are drawn into a circumstance where end and beginning meld.
This ushers in an opportunity for all of us to assess our past, present, and the mysterious unknown, the future. What, in the past year, should we stop doing, what should we continue doing, and what, in 2005, should we start doing to better the life of our country and people?
The year that is about to pass presented an existence precarious to all of us at the national level—a politically frightening financial crisis, a socially devastating rate of inflation, and an economically debilitating flight of investors causing a slowdown in national and local development.
Their implication on domestic life has been far-reaching.
At the local level was the radical rise in criminality that has given way to the organization by Cebu City of a Hunters’ Team,” a move without any precedent here before. And it is getting public support, as seen from the utter lack of public outcry against it.
Absence of opposition means tacit acceptance.
As the country crosses the imaginary divide that separates the current year from the incoming one, what should we do to make life a bit better? Certainly, efforts must be done to resolve the fiscal dilemma, the runaway inflation and our political outlook.
Indeed, there is much to be said of the political outlook of our national and local leaders.
Anticipating the nation’s rising demand for power and water while striving to improve the socio-economic life of the Filipino should be the top priority in the national agenda. Power and water are sine qua non in economic development.
Certainly, as we begin the New Year, the challenge is for the government and people to rectify the failures of 2004 as well as strive to build on its successes so that 2005 will be much more rewarding to our lives.
Will he or won’t he?
Now that former president Joseph Estrada has been temporarily freed to Hong Kong for medical reasons, there is widespread speculation on his true intent other than the need to undergo a knee operation.
His main detractor, former bosom friend and drinking and/or gambling companion Ilocos Sur Gov. Chavit Singson, believe Erap will no longer return to the country.
So will he, or won’t he?
(December 30, 2004 issue)
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