PBBM In America: Photo Erratum!

May 2, 2023 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles, Washington Bureau) – You can’t be protesting against someone with happy faces. It doesn’t make sense. The anger must show. Unless, of course, it is meant to be a fun photo op or groupie.

A very small group of (supposedly) Filipino Americans posed for a photo in front of some unknown warehouse in Massachusetts the other day, protesting the state visit of Philippine President Bongbong Marcos. Their banner read: “Marcos is not welcome here!” (meaning in America).

But the photo showed happy faces. Did they really mean what their banner was trying to convey?

So we asked our resident designer to do a photo erratum on our behalf and on behalf of the protesters!

Government, Health & Medicine

Philippine Lawmaker Proposes One-Year Quarantine For Medical Professionals!

May 2, 2023 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – A lawmaker has proposed a measure mandating that new Filipino doctors and nurses be quarantined in the country for a year before they could seek jobs abroad.

Malasakit and Bayahanihan party-list Rep. Anthony Rolando Golez Jr. said House Bill No. 6232, also known as Mandatory Medical Service Bill, aims to address the shortage of healthcare workers in the Philippines.

Instead of creating incentives for the medical professionals, Golez wants to punish them for years of expensive education and training, and for seeking a better future for themselves and their families.

Is this a case of “if you can’t stop them, detain them?”

Is this also yet another argument for the abolition of the party-list system in Philippine Congress?