ACT and dress properly. Behave, as is expected of court employees, to get the public's respect.
Thus exhorted new Chief Justice Lucas P. Bersamin of the Supreme Court to all officers and employees of the judiciary.
He advised them to not wear collarless clothes. For women wearing collarless shirts, a blazer should be worn on top and males should wear clothes with uniform.
Avoid using cellphones, he further advised and if answering a call, go to a room without creating too much fuss and then promptly return to work.
The admonitions of the new chief justice are fitting for the judiciary which the public look up for decent behavior and proper decorum.
The entire bureaucracy should act, speak and behave properly to gain utmost respect of the people they serve daily.
There are codes of conduct in our country, the Civil Service Commission for one prescribes the mode of behavior for all officers and employees of the government.
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In contrast, the honorable congressmen are embroiled in planning to loot the treasury by way of allocating huge amounts for their districts kuno.
Led by their speaker, congressmen have adjudicated unto themselves billions of pesos for so-called flood projects or flood mitigation projects.
Like magicians, congressmen have fertile imaginations and quick hands that they can convert/transform hard-earned taxpayers' money into imagined projects with fancy labels or names.
Ah, these lawmakers believe they can trifle with the law since they are the authors thereof anyway. A misplaced sense of patriotism, I dare say.
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Columnist Ana Marie Pamintuan of the Philippine Star comments: Elective officials in particular seem to believe that the people's mandate is a license to steal and gives them carte blanche to use public funds and office for personal gain.
Now that the May 2019 elections are getting nearer by the day, this is a caveat most candidates should take heed.
Pamintuan furthered: It looks like the new milking cow is the Road Users' tax. Lawmakers are also fighting among themselves, questioning flood control projects even for congressional districts with no flood problems. Well.
Pamintuan concluded thus: Taxpayers should be glad that dirty linen is being washed in public. Lawmakers are not fighting for the judicious use of public funds, but over the loss of their personal entitlement and control over our money.
And to think members of Congress are addressed as honorables. Sus!
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Mabalacat City College headed by Dr. Carmelita Sotto, president, has achieved another outstanding performance of its Customs Broker Administration graduates. Out of 25 who took the exams, some 22 graduates passed the board exams and become the number two institution to notch the distinction nationwide.
Let the city officials led by Mayor Crisostomo Garbo take serious notice of this feat.