MANILA. Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – SM Malls, the largest conglomerate of shopping malls in the Philippines, is taking the lead in ending LGBT discrimination in the country.
It has announced that it will convert all its public restrooms into “all-gender” restrooms.
The move came after that incident in a Quezon City mall where a transgender woman was refused the use the female restroom by a clueless attendant.
In a statement issued through a spokesperson for SM, management said that it fully supports the LGBT community and will immediately institute a “free-for-all” restroom policy, one that will allow customers to use whichever restroom they are comfortable and fully identify with — male, female, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, etc. etc.
SM’s only request is for all restroom users to wash their hands after use.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar says he fully supports increasing the take-home pay of journalists and other media workers. After all, they comprise society’s Fourth Estate.
Speaking with The Adobo Chronicles, Andanar additionally proposed that their salaries should match those of PCOO officials and employees.
”I must admit that PCOO hasn’t done a good job in bringing about an informed Filipino citizenry but the private news media —except Rappler, Inquirer and ABS-CBN — have filled the gap due to my department’s incompetence and inadequacies,” Andanar said.
Asked what the salary ranges are for PCOO officials and employees, Andanar said “that’s proprietary information, but you could request data through the FOI (Freedom of Information) initiative of the Duterte government. PCOO’s annual budget is P1.4 Billion.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros has made herself clear about the reinstatement of the death penalty for heinous crimes in the Philippines, saying it’s not a deterrent to crime. She is opposed to it.
But Hontiveros seems to have softened her stance.
This, after President Duterte signed the law creating the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA).
The lady Senator says that she will support the death penalty bill with a compromise proposal: instead of sending convicted criminals to the electric chair, “we should send them to space.”
Her idea is for death row inmates to acompany unmanned rocket ships that will be launched by the new space agency. “It will be a one-way trip to space for these crminals,” Hontiveros said. “It will be a kinder, gentler way of imposing the capital punishment.”
MANILA. Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – SM Malls, the largest conglomerate of shopping malls in the Philippines, is taking the lead in ending LGBT discrimination in the country.
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