Author: Rhod Tecson

Last week, I discussed in this column the actual situation at the roll on-roll off (RORO) terminals both in Dumangas Seaport and BREDCO in Bacolod City.

It was in February 2018 when then president Rodrigo Duterte declared Boracay as a cesspool and after a series of warnings eventually ordered its closure.

The RORO project which was initiated and started during the term of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has been a driver of connectivity and the economy.

The deaths of John Matthew Salilig, an Adamson University chemistry junior last February 18, 2023 and Ronnel Baquio, a second year maritime student in Cebu last December 2022, from the hands of their Tau Gamma Phi fraternity initiators are open calls for the government, authorities and school administrations to initiate an intensive policy review governing fraternities and sororities.

Another elected official has succumbed to murder due to intense political rivalry. The latest victim Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo was serving a new mandate after an intense legal battle at the courts and the Commission on Elections (COMELEC).