Baguio Insider

Quote #1″Let’s face it. Much money has been invested (for the project) and removing it would be impractical.” Fariñas, appealing to the various sectors to just consider the benefits the flyover would give to the city like traffic relief in the area.

Let’s face it, there was no traffic in that area until they started building the stupid flyover! Much money was wasted on an unnecessary, ugly, impractical structure that arose from the figment of someone’s imagination on how to make massive money from the project.

If there was truly traffic congestion in the area, Domogan and Vergara could have first tried an effing stoplight before wasting a hundred million on a few meters of a concrete monstrosity.

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I posted a comment on the Mayor’s blog regarding his deliberate move to ruin tourism by not collecting the garbage just when tourists were arriving in Baguio (there of course I was nice and polite — it was his blog, not mine — here I can say what I want about the politicians’ pathetic and ill-disguised moves to line their pockets while ruining Baguio). I remember reading Padma’s very polite suggestions published there, too, and about 5 comments before hers that were visibly sucking up to cheering Peter Rey on. (more…)

Catchy slogan!

There’s actually a group of evangelists and Baguio residents who have formed a watch group and want to shoo away migrants.

Their ire, though is focused on the Koreans. I have reproduced excerpts of a recent article below:

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UPDATE on 11/17/2007: Mrs. Sembrano, who was elected as city councilor in May 2007,  and in no way responsible for the  ’savings’ from the 2006 city budget (not that that’s any justification for the city council’s recent move),  has voted along with other members to allot a cars for themselves in a recent issue.

Please read this article though as far as the irony of things is concerned, Mrs. Sembrano who heads the market committee opposing a market on Burnham Park that Pinky Rondez, head of the tourism committee is pushing for).

I was so hoping that Mrs. Sembrano, not being heretofore responsible for the current ills in Baguio (unlike her re-electionist compatriots) would be a fresh voice, a clean voice. The recent developments have proven otherwise.

I have been getting dismayed about Baguio’s mayors, vice-mayors, councilors and congressmen in recent days years. All the same people who have been members of past administrations keep getting elected all the time. The same people directly responsible for the uglification of Baguio and the destruction of the good quality of life that people have enjoyed here for decades.

Last May, Elaine Sembrano’s name surfaced because she was a dark horse, a political newbie, who’s daughter it seems appears on TV. But Mrs. Sembrano was elected because she has kept close ties with the market vendors via what can be called micro-financing, according to her sister, Baby Samonte, who is one of my friends in Manila. So she made it to the magic 12 and thank goodness for that!

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