Drown-proofing the Maritime Filipino

Segundo Eclar Romero - @inquirerdotnet 01/03/2023

It’s another year! The first urgent problem of this maritime nation is the impending ban on Filipino seafarers on ships flagged in the European Union for not meeting the training standards set by the European Maritime Safety…

‘Golden age’: Philippine and Russian versions

Segundo Eclar Romero - @inquirerdotnet 05/03/2022

In the recent Ukraine Defense Consultative Group Meeting in Germany hosted by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III, Nato countries and their allies resolved to provide heavy armaments to enable Ukraine to push back against President Vladimir…

More connected than we think

Segundo Eclar Romero - @inquirerdotnet 03/04/2022

The Ukrainians are fighting and resisting a little too hard, frustrating Russian President Vladimir Putin who did not expect such spirited defiance. Financial and economic sanctions against Putin, his cabal of crony oligarchs, and Russia itself by…

Debates as electoral runway

Segundo Eclar Romero - @inquirerdotnet 01/28/2022

The Marcos Jr. campaign has begun referring to its standard-bearer as “Apo” to complete the son’s identification with Marcos Sr. Apo Dayunyor has declared that if he wins, he will not allow International Criminal Court probers into…

Decrepit patriotism

Segundo Eclar Romero - @inquirerdotnet 11/26/2021

As early as 2013, Jeff Himmelman in a New York Times article quoted Maj. Gen. Zhang Zhaozhong of China’s People’s Liberation Army regarding Ayungin Shoal and other Philippine territories: “We should do more such things in the…

The poverty of our democracy

Segundo Eclar Romero - @inquirerdotnet 11/12/2021

Fernando Poe Jr. was known for the saying, “kapag puno na ang salop, kakalusin na” (When the rice measuring container is full, it’s time to strip off the excess). The rice example is meant to signify a…

Biggest threat to the elections

Segundo Eclar Romero - @inquirerdotnet 10/08/2021

There they go! Sen. Panfilo Lacson, Sen. Emmanuel Pacquiao, Mayor Francisco Moreno, former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., and Vice President Leni Robredo are all racing for the presidency in May 2022. All eyes are on the candidates…

Yorme and the ‘wag dugyot’ factor

Segundo Eclar Romero - @inquirerdotnet 09/24/2021

Alagaan ninyo ito. Hindi araw-araw Pasko. ’Wag ninyong bababuyin. ’Di baleng maging mahirap tayo, ’wag lang tayong maging dugyot.” “Dignity as we crawl out of poverty.” That will be the essence of the narrative of Mayor Isko…

Why pick on OCTA?

Segundo Eclar Romero - @inquirerdotnet 09/10/2021

The House committee on good government and public accountability acts like a modern-day Inquisition in pillorying OCTA Research on suspicion of tending to create public panic, conflict of interest, occult funding, lack of qualification, and loquaciousness. Committee…

Biden’s strategic purpose

Segundo Eclar Romero - @inquirerdotnet 08/20/2021

The world is flogging US President Joe Biden for breaking up with Afghanistan on a Post-it note. That the United States was going to leave and pull out all its troops in mid-2021 was already agreed upon…

Repurposing 1Sambayan

Segundo Eclar Romero - @inquirerdotnet 08/06/2021

Did VP Leni just pull the rug from under 1Sambayan? Much of the Filipino nation that wants an end to the Duterte regime see in 1Sambayan the mechanism for uniting the opposition to wage this fight. But…

Duterte overturns Duterte

Segundo Eclar Romero - @inquirerdotnet 07/30/2021

The most memorable takeaway I had from President Duterte’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) last Monday was his realization that to eradicate corruption, he needed to “overturn” the government and replace erring government personnel. For this…

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