Pacete: Hopes, wishes and aspirations for 2020

EVERY new year, we have new resolutions and many of them cannot be resolved until December. We simply forget or we just don't want to remember the resolutions we have made. It is some kind of a promise that we do not want to fulfill. Husbands and wives know that.

Our public officials have always considered 2019 as a source of inspiration and a basis for a better performance in 2020. That is good! We look forward for more full-throttle actions in 2020. Public officials should turn in tour-de-force performance or else...

This January, we have the first loud bark from PNP when it ordered the regional offices to list down the top 10 medium-to high-value targets to showcase its bravado performance in cracking down illegal drugs. In Western Visayas, the most "livable city of Bacolod" and Negros Occidental, "the land of sweet surprises" are still considered to be the favorite focus of persons of interest (PNP source).

It is in our wish list that Bacolod and Negros Occidental will be drug-free without using the fascistic vigilante-like methods. We don't want our law enforcers to be heroes without context. Sometimes our operatives love to show rugged authenticity to prove they are right.

Gov. Bong Lacson has spoken. Our governor is disappointed because of the continued delay of major infrastructures. These are vital projects to boost the economy and tourism in our "Land of sweet surprises." We do not want to test the mercurial temperament of our soft-spoken governor.

The Negros Food Terminal is a necessity. It is where businessmen converge to obtain what they can feed to Negrosanons and visitors. This is where we showcase our products. Mambucal Convention Center Hotel is our tourism asset. Mambucal is our provincial capital and we expect influx of tourists during the summer months.

The same thing is also happening to the Negros First Residences and the Capitol-operated hotel. These are vital buildings that should toe the line for our "Abanse Negrense" program. The governor is right that the Provincial Legal Office should now take action against the contractors who seem to have a vision of neo-medievalism in their approach of contracting projects.

These past few days, our local dailies were loaded with "rape news." It is now high time to reconsider the role of our "barangay tanods." Rapists are like loose cannons with a death wish... "rape and kill." Our barangay captains should have the adrenaline rush to motivate their "tanods" to move around the barangay and patrol the areas that are less travelled.

Remote haciendas and sitios should form "volunteer rondas" to provide safety to their girls. Our policemen should conduct a massive information campaign in the barangays so that parents would know what to do so that their girls will not become prey for the rapists.

We don't want that rapists will keep on circulating in our communities with their bad-ass attitudes. We should use our local "bat men" to hunt these nocturnal savages. Barangay officials should have bizarre master plan to counteract the goth culture of the rapists. For 2020, one of our aspirations is the involvement of everyone in attaining peace, unity, and justice. Let us all create an awe-inspiring 2020.

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