MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – In a new Social Weather Stations (SWS), the Filipino people are showing grave concern about President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, telling him, “You’ve Gone Too Far.”
Eight five percent of survey respondents agreed that the controversial leader needs to slow down.
“We can’t take it anymore,” the Filipinos said, “having free health insurance, free medicines, free education, free irrigation for our farmers, free nutritious food for our poor kids, increased pension and more work security. Please give his some time to breath before you come up with more good news for us. We’re not used to this.”
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau)- As news reached Filipinos that their representative to the Miss World Pageant which just concluded in Washington, D.C. made it to the Top 5 finalists, there was jubilation and hope.
Then disappointment.
Miss Philippines Catriona Gray failed to win the Miss World crown which would have been the second such title for the country. It would have put the Philippines on the Guiness World Record for being the only country simultaneously holding the crowns for the three top international beauty pageants. Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach is the reigning Miss Universe, and Kylie Verzosa is the newly-crowned Miss International.
But hours after it was announced that Miss Puerto Rico won the 2016 Miss World crown, millions of Filipinos are still waiting for Stevie Harvey to come on live television to announce that there was a mistake in the results of the pageant. They are hoping that Harvey would make the correction and say that Miss Philippines won the crown.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – As if the recent announcements that beginning next year, students will no longer pay tuition at state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the Philippines weren’t enough, the Duterte administration today revealed that aspiring Filipino journalists will be provided full scholarships at private institutions.
The free tuition at SUCs is made possible following the realignment of P8.3 billion in the 2017 budget of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). The Senate realigned the P8.3-billion allocation to cover tuition of students in SUCs during the Senate deliberations on the 2017 budget. It reportedly came from the infrastructure budget for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, which was questioned by Sen. Panfilo Lacson and dubbed as a form of pork barrel.
It wasn’t clear where the scholarship funds for journalists will come from, but the Presidential Communications Office said that they will be available beginning in the next school semester.
The idea of journalism scholarships came from ordinary citizens after they complained to Malacañang (presidential palace) that they can no longer rely on media like ABS-CBN, GMA-7, Inquirer, Rappler as well as other “news blogs” like that of Raissa Robles for unbiased and accurate news. The citizens also said that they are sick and tired of insignificant and sensational news headlines directed at the Duterte administration as well as the members of the opposition. They added that many local media outlets are responsible for feeding false information to international news media.
In order to qualify for the four-year journalism scholarships, the applicants must be high school graduates, Filipino or dual citizens, and must write a 300-word essay listing the accomplishments of the Duterte administration since the president took over on June 30 this year.
A second essay, which will help determine the final list of scholarship recipients, must be submitted along with the application. The second essay should deal on the topic, “Why the Previous Aquino Administration Failed the Filipino People.” There is no word limit for the second essay.
Reacting to the good news, popular bloggers Mocha Uson, Thinking Pinoy and Sass Rogando Sasot promised that once the first batch of journalism scholars finish their course, they will cease publishing their blogs.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – In a new Social Weather Stations (SWS), the Filipino people are showing grave concern about President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, telling him, “You’ve Gone Too Far.”
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau)- As news reached Filipinos that their representative to the Miss World Pageant which just concluded in Washington, D.C. made it to the Top 5 finalists, there was jubilation and hope.
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