What is going on with the Philippines? I go to the Cogon Market in Cagayan de Oro City and I see Filipinos herded inside a rope enclosure docile as lambs waiting to buy NFA rice. Are Filipinos no better than animals? The brilliant Arroyo administration which has claimed success for the exchange rate of the peso against the dollar is finally laying siege on the dignity of the Filipino. Does no one see the irony? People are now buying pilit or malagkit, gelatinous rice used for puto maya and suman and mixing this with rice because it is cheaper. Rice at 54 pesos!!

Cagayan de Oro City Revisited

I have seen that there has been some changes in the way NFA rice is being distributed. No longer do I see any rope enclosures in Cogon Market in Cagayan de Oro City. Thank God somebody has found a better way of distributing rice. It pains me to see Filipinos reduced to such a condition as being roped off as though animals waiting in a paddock or corral. Cagayan de Oro City is very close to my heart and I had all praises for the way traffic has been decongested by opening new bridges that link Nazareth to Carmen and another one that brings Taguanao closer to Lumbia. I think with this new development, I will go back to praising the City Government of Cagayan de Oro for what it is doing for the people of the city.