Letters to the Editor: Rise of birth control products in pharmacies

Dear Editor,

When the Philippines began its Metro Manila-wide community quarantine in the middle of March, various jokes on possible increase of population in the next nine months had dominated the social media. For many pharmacists, this speculation may be regarded as a reality.

Letters to the Editor: The challenge for a Solomonic decision in choosing Zamboanga's leaders

Dear Editor,

 

I recently saw an interview of Mayor Beng Climaco Salazar on TV 11, where for the first time the mayor answered back the innuendos and accusations cast on her by her one time party-mate and now political rival for the position of Mayor, Celso Lobregat.

 

I once thought that the mayor was weak and indecisive, but in that interview, the mayor practically proved me wrong when she showed strength and tact in answering accusations made against her by her political opponent. It is quite obvious that Celso Lobregat will have to answer what the mayor revealed in the “No Holds Barred” interview , where she unabashedly criticized Congressman Lobregat of under-utilizing the people’s money when he was then mayor of the city, and by depositing it in a bank.

 

But the strongest statement coming from the Mayor was when she criticized Celso Lobregat , who prides himself as the champion of Zamboanga, failed to support the city of Zamboanga in filing a case against members of the MNLF responsible for the terrorist attack in the city in the September 9, 2013 siege.

 

The mayor of the city of Zamboanga has picked up the glove thrown at her in the political confrontation this coming May, and obviously the mayor’s accusations raised against Celso Lobregat for failing to support the city’s cry for justice, would damage his ambitions for the mayoralty position of the city.

 

All this time, Mayor Beng has been quiet the former Mayor continuously cast innuendos against her administration. But that interview showed another kind of Beng Climaco, not one that is a mild mannered Maria from the Von Trappe family, but a Margaret Thatcher who can cross swords with any political rival in this coming election.

 

The question is whether this would result to the votes she needs to keep her position as chief executive of Zamboanga? Well, the elections is yet too far, but if you ask me, I would put the money on the one who answers with substance, and evidences that you can defend on the battlefront of public opinion. That being said, why is Celso Lobregat a little coy about answering the Mayor’s challenge for a debate on the issues he has raised against the administration of Mayor Beng?

 

After all, if he decides to make the accusations first, you could think he would be able to substantiate it and defend it in a proper forum like a public debate, then let the people judge who is really worth his salt. The people of Zamboanga need to use wisdom in this coming election, the kind of wisdom that God gave Solomon in deciding who is the true mother for a child.

 

In this case the child is the people of Zamboanga, and only the leader who really cares for its people will show the kind of compassion and love for its people, and not look at this political exercise as just another opportunity for political survivalism.

 

Thank you and more power.

 

Erasimo Nalugi

Letters to the Editor: Choose to fly unencumbered By Carolina Baro Balmaceda, a Filipino mother

Dear Editor-in-Chief,

 

We highly appreciate that we have The Mindanao Examiner  in very good circulation and you have your own niche.

 

I am emailing you an exhortation, as attached, intended for our Filipino youth, hoping that a personal sentiment like mine will find merit and favor with you enough to get it published.

 

Thank you very much!

 

I am a regular homemaker who hails from Mindanao. I am gainfully employed with the business process outsourcing industry (call center), engaged in the role of a voice and nonvoice customer service representative.

 

Thank you once again, more power to your business enterprise!

 

Carolina Baro Balmaceda

carolinabbalmaceda@gmail.com

 

 

Choose to fly unencumbered By Carolina Baro Balmaceda, a Filipino mother

TO THE YOUTH, hope of this land. Study and be better and stronger. Please do not let allow strong hatred to take root in your hearts. Our Nation needs you especially now when we are in dire straits in all aspects of our life together. We need you who are vibrant with life, you who embody a bright future for us all. You can always conquer the dark negativities looming large all around us. In your youth you are blessed such that with your own fresh contribution, you can heal our forever-ailing land.

Please choose to walk the higher ground and lift us all from those years of neglect and abuse carried over to the present when only a few powerful clans and their allies have gained much privilege for themselves. You recall that we fought for the collapse of the Marcos regime with their brand of Martial Law, the tool they used for warped purposes, for selfish ends. But since then, what has changed?

You need only open your eyes so you can close them again in contemplation. Why want to hurt us all with your great outrage targetting the very Institution which is trying its very best to protect and provide for you, to pave a better future for you? Has it not welcomed your ideas and longings, and acted for your welfare?  Ask instead: from all those years since the toppling of that repressive regime, what has been done for the great many of us, for your fellow youth in the very poor provinces outside of Metro Manila? Have the resources been reaching our far-flung areas, distributed so that lives can be actually helped? Ask why the great number of our poor have only turned mendicants begging for any dole outs while they, the rich and secret billionaires in the elite society keep getting richer to even powerfully compete with the ordinary citizens, their businesses sprouting everywhere rounding up and engulfing our meager resources to themselves.

And how about the CPP-NPA-NDF? Unbelievable that you, our dear treasures, are turning blind to their grave atrocities, the activities and the kinds of crimes they devotedly undertake in the provinces, the countrysides. With you seriously aligning yourselves now with their ideology, what are you subjecting us all to? 

Our Government has extended its hand to them welcoming them in friendship and forgiveness because that was the will of the people. But even while we were doing that, they went on continually, even to slay some more innocent folks and law-enforcers during the recent Peace Negotiations.  They have pushed hard for power-sharing which our Government  is not at all inclined to favor and accept, not unless it is now your will... and then you would subject us all to an even bleaker future, how unfortunate that we’d have to derail our national aspirations once again and for the nth time.

Playing a role in a dangerous game is not worth giving your precious time to. Fly free so you yourselves can uplift us from the cursed situation we are all in.

Please think, and do not allow the template to forever remain in the hard drive. You can do a lot for our land. (By Carolina Baro Balmaceda, a Filipino mother)

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