Editorial 2/17/16 (smuggling, presidential elections, Philippines, Cebu, land)

By Anonymous

Philippine Star 
That scandal and several changes of BOC heads have not put an end to the rampant smuggling of almost everything from frozen meat to rice, onions and luxury vehicles. Outside Customs zones, local political kingpins themselves are widely suspected to be leading smuggling rings, bringing in through coastal communities a wide range of contraband including motorcycles and even guns and prohibited drugs. [full text]

Sun.Star Cebu 
Yet anyone who stands for election, especially a presidential election, needs to give up expectations of privacy on most matters. Information about whether a presidential candidate is physically and mentally fit for such a sensitive and taxing position should be disclosed—the public’s right to know being paramount. And the candidate who volunteers to disclose such information would be doing potential voters a service. [full text]

Cebu Daily News
The problem of informal settlers has grown significantly in Metro Cebu, specifically in Cebu City where the province and the Church still own large tracts of lands because there had been little to insignificant growth in the countryside. Giving a one-year moratorium on demolitions would not only encourage the influx of people from the countryside who can ill-afford to support themselves and thus squat in some private or public land, it would also enable them to dig in their heels and refuse to move out even when the property owner’s right to their own lands are upheld in court.
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