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Remnants of 2016 Elections Debris from the vote

May 25, 2016May 25, 2016 Davinci Maru

By Vino Lucero

WEEKS after balloting day last May 9, the campaign posters and stickers of some candidates remain, a clutter of messy memories on the walls, lamp posts, and electric wires of the city.

A photo-walk session over the weekend on the streets of Krus na Ligas, Teachers Village, and UP Village in Diliman, Quezon City, painted this ugly picture of uncleared debris after the vote.

And while the campaign teams of some candidates have launched their respective clean-up drives, the burden of cleaning the city of election garbage has fallen largely on the shoulders of lowly garbage collectors.

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Posters of presidential candidates Jejomar Binay and Grace Poe and Quezon City’s fourth district councilor candidate Al Flores still hang from an electric post along Mapagkawanggawa Street.

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The roof of this waiting shed along CP Garcia Avenue bears the face of presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte.

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The images of Raquel Malañgen and Irene Belmonte, both councilor candidates in the fourth district of Quezon City, spring from electric wires in Krus na Ligas.

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Weeks after festivities in Krus na Ligas and the elections, banderitas and posters of local candidates offer an eccentric mix of draperies.

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Campaign posters hang below a “Thank You” sign in Krus na Ligas, sending a somewhat subliminal message to voters.

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Some effort has been exerted to remove some campaign stickers of certain candidates yet still, the food strip of Maginhawa Street bears witness to the unfinished task.

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Light to heavy rain in recent days have soiled some unremoved campaign posters.

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This barangay security post along Matimtiman Street remains a virtual bulletin board for the posters of local candidates, weeks after election day.

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Village gates have turned into a show window of campaign paraphernalia.

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Clean up the city of campaign posters? Some party-list groups have failed in this task.

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An electric post on Matimtiman Street in UP Village still hosts the images of Marra Suntay, 2016 candidate for councilor in Quezon City, and Bong Suntay, a candidate in previous election.

EDSA@30: An Unfinished Revolution

February 26, 2016February 26, 2016 Davinci Maru

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Text and Photos by DAVINCI S. MARU

THIRTY years after the EDSA People Power revolt of 1986, protest marches linger. The protesters hurling often sharp and bitter critique of the myriad reforms that many had expected would follow the fall of the Marcos regime, and the peaceful transition from authoritarianism to democracy.

But EDSA was all of so many things to many people, an inchoate bundle of hopes and dreams not quite easy to fulfill. The expectations were so rich and enormous that not any four-day revolt by any number of street marches could deliver all at once — not just rights restored but also lives improved, and not just repression quashed but also good governance served on a silver platter.

And so, three decades hence, the marches continue.

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Bilyonaryo: The exclusive few

March 3, 2015March 3, 2015 Julius Mariveles Leave a comment

FORBES, the American business magazine, recently reported that more Filipinos have been included in the exclusive billionaires’ circle.

Still the richest man in the Philippines is mall magnate Henry Sy Sr., ranked as the 73rd richest man in the world, jumping several places from his 97th spot in 2014.

“With an increased net worth of $14.2 billion from last year’s $11.3 billion, mall tycoon Henry Sy Sr. maintains his spot as the richest man in the country. In second place, JG Summit Holdings Inc. Head John Gokongwei Jr. ranked 254th richest man in the world with a net worth of $5.8 billion from last year’s $3.9 billion,” a report published on inquirer.net said.

Click on photo for the full report on inquirer.net.

HENRY SY SR. | Photo from sminvestments.com

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, is the world’s richest man with a net worth of $72 billion.

Click on photo to read the full list on the Forbes website.

IMAGE grabbed from Forbes.com website

Do you know who these Filipino billionaires are?

The PCIJ has published several articles about some of them.

HENRY SY, Sultan of Retail : Chinese-Filipino businessman Henry Sy was once called the “Sam Walton of the Far East” because the aggressive expansion of his shopping-mall empire resembled the strategy adopted by the popular Wal-Mart supermarket chain that made Walton a household name in the United States.

Click on photo to read our special report.

JOHN GOKONGWEI, right, with his son, Lance | Photo from jjsummit.com.ph

LUCIO TAN is obviously uncomfortable with the camera. He looks at it with a plastic grin that barely masks the grim forbearance with which he faces crowds.

Yet, unknown to many, both men go a long way back. The president himself said so last April, at the height of the election campaign, when he was guest at a dinner at the Tan-owned Century Park Sheraton Hotel for the managers of the tycoon’s sprawling business empire. “Alam ninyo, itong si Mr. Tan, mayor pa ako ng San Juan, magkaibigan na kami(Mr. Tan and I have been friends ever since I was mayor of San Juan),” Estrada told the gathering, according to Salvador Mison, a retired general who heads Tan’s management company, Basic Shareholdings, Inc.

Click on photo to read the full article on Lucio Tan written by PCIJ founding executive director Sheila S. Coronel.

Bilyonaryo: The exclusive few

March 3, 2015March 3, 2015 Julius Mariveles Leave a comment

FORBES, the American business magazine, recently reported that more Filipinos have been included in the exclusive billionaires’ circle.

Still the richest man in the Philippines is mall magnate Henry Sy Sr., ranked as the 73rd richest man in the world, jumping several places from his 97th spot in 2014.

Click on photo for the full report on inquirer.net.

HENRY SY SR. | Photo from sminvestments.com

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, is the world’s richest man with a net worth of $72 billion.

Click on photo to read the full list on the Forbes website.

IMAGE grabbed from Forbes.com website

Do you know who these Filipino billionaires are?

The PCIJ has published several articles about some of them.

HENRY SY, Sultan of Retail : Chinese-Filipino businessman Henry Sy was once called the “Sam Walton of the Far East” because the aggressive expansion of his shopping-mall empire resembled the strategy adopted by the popular Wal-Mart supermarket chain that made Walton a household name in the United States.

Click on photo to read our special report.

JOHN GOKONGWEI, right, with his son, Lance | Photo from jjsummit.com.ph

LUCIO TAN is obviously uncomfortable with the camera. He looks at it with a plastic grin that barely masks the grim forbearance with which he faces crowds.

Yet, unknown to many, both men go a long way back. The president himself said so last April, at the height of the election campaign, when he was guest at a dinner at the Tan-owned Century Park Sheraton Hotel for the managers of the tycoon’s sprawling business empire. “Alam ninyo, itong si Mr. Tan, mayor pa ako ng San Juan, magkaibigan na kami(Mr. Tan and I have been friends ever since I was mayor of San Juan),” Estrada told the gathering, according to Salvador Mison, a retired general who heads Tan’s management company, Basic Shareholdings, Inc.

Click on photo to read the full article on Lucio Tan written by PCIJ founding executive director Sheila S. Coronel.

‘We will sing our own songs’

February 26, 2015February 26, 2015 Julius Mariveles Leave a comment

Remembering Ka Pepe Diokno

“I know my people. We will be free. We will develop. We will build our own societies. We will sing our own songs” — Jose W. Diokno

KA PEPE DIOKNO | Photo from www.diokno.org

EXACTLY two days after the first year anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolt, a nationalist died.

Today, February 26, 2015, is also Ka Pepe’s birthday. He would have turned 93. Tomorrow is his 28th death anniversary. “Senator, Secretary of Justice, Lawyer, Nationalist, and Filipino” is the simple description of Jose Wright Diokno on the webpage diokno.org.

Starting today, we will be featuring the three-part video of the PCIJ on the life and times of Pepe Diokno. This video was first aired on the PCIJdotOrg Youtube Channel on February 2012.

It is often said that the likes of Senators Jose W. Diokno and Lorenzo Tanada belong to an entirely different generation of lawyers and legislators. Theirs has been called the golden age of statesmanship and politics, a time when legislators could hold the public spellbound for hours with their mastery of the law and the language.

Jose Wright Diokno was the first Filipino to top the licensure exams of both accountancy and the bar. He excelled in trial law at a time when trial lawyers were considered the best and the brightest in the legal profession. In 1961, he was appointed to head the Justice Department, where he attempted to prosecute an American businessman to the consternation of some high-ranking government officials who were said to be in his pocket.

Fired unceremoniously, Diokno ran and won a Senate seat, where he enthralled a new generation of lawyers who would later form the core of his Free Legal Assistance Group.