Senator shuns NAIA privatization

MANILA – The privatization of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) and other airports would not solve the worsening condition of these facilities, Senator Risa Hontiveros said on Sunday.

Instead of pushing for the airports’ privatization as proposed by fellow legislators, Hontiveros suggested that the government should focus on improving management and greater accountability of local airports.

“Privatization is not the correct prescription to solve the worsening problems of service within our airports," Hontiveros said in a news release.

Operations at NAIA and other local airports will never improve even if the private sector runs them unless management systems are reformed, she said.

Hontiveros issued the statement after some colleagues in the Senate brought up the idea of privatizing the airport.

Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri even suggested allowing a foreign firm to run the problematic airport.

But the opposition solon disputed such a claim, adding that allowing international firms to manage the

PROBLEMATIC AIRPORT. The privatization of Ninoy Aquino International Airport is deemed as a solution to the deteriorating condition of the facility. But Senator Risa Hontiveros believed otherwise, adding that improving management and greater accountability could solve airports' woes. (PNA file photo) airport does not guarantee better services. Worse, they could bring additional toll on the traveling public.

She said well-maintained airports around the world like Doha’s Hamad International Airport, Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport, Korea’s Incheon International Airport, Paris’ Charles de Gaulle, and Istanbul Airport are all managed by their respective states.

“The majority of the best airports in the world remain state-owned. There are plenty of good practices in airport operations for us to emulate if the government is indeed serious about fixing our airports,” Hontiveros said.

The senator echoed the earlier call of House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto and other officials for an immediate technical system audit of NAIA operations so the government can proactively identify and address its weaknesses.

Manila International Airport Authority officerin-charge Bryan Co said in a statement Friday that with the assistance of power distributor Manila Electric Company (Meralco), the electrical audit of the NAIA Terminal 3 has started following an outage on May 1 that disrupted flights and affected about 9,300 passengers.

Meralco said the outage was caused either by faulty wiring or short circuit, which resulted in a high amount of power current and fault indicator. (With reports from Leonel Abasola/PNA)

ROYAL RECEPTION. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. attends the royal reception at Buckingham Palace in London on Friday night (May 5, 2023), a day before the Grand Coronation of King Charles III. Marcos was joined by his wife, First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos. (Photo courtesy of the Presidential Communications Office)

PBBM attends royal reception; singles out 'thriving' PH-UK ties

MANILA – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Friday night graced the royal reception hosted by King Charles III on the eve of the latter’s historic coronation, at Buckingham Palace in London, the United Kingdom.

Donning a barong with a Philippine flag lapel pin, Marcos was seen exchanging pleasantries with King Charles III, based on the photo released by the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) on its official Facebook page on Saturday.

The President was accompanied by his wife, First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, clad in an elegant Filipiniana dress.

In a separate Facebook post, Marcos said he was “deeply honored” to attend the royal reception with his wife at Buckingham Palace.

He also emphasized the importance of the Philippines’ “thriving” relations with the UK.

“We underscore the thriving relationship between the Philippines and the United Kingdom, which has been promising in increasing trade, investment, and cultural exchanges for the Filipino people,” he said.

Marcos flew to London to witness the Grand Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday.

King Charles III, formerly known as The Prince of Wales, was born in 1948

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While common sense is considered conventional wisdom, uncommon sense is a re-examination of that conventional wisdom. In our business life and personal life, following common sense is usually the safe way to go.

Common sense is not so common, Voltaire once wrote. There is always that one bad-mannered person in class who sneezes without covering their mouth. Or the person who takes up two seats on the train just because they like to sit with their legs spread out.

As I ponder the back and forth and up and down in my surroundings and the whole world, a book from my library falls into my hand: Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense with the subtitle Out of the box thinking for an in the box world.

visionaries, and brings brilliant clarity and focus to our understanding of ourselves and our technologies, and of how profoundly each is transforming the other." describes Douglas Adams, author of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

In Uncommon Sense, Peter Cochrane's follow up to the radical 108 Tips for Time Traveller. Peter explains how very simple analysis allows the prediction of such debacles as the 3G auction and the subsequent collapse of an industry, whilst simple-minded thinking is dangerous in the context of a world that is predominantly chaotic and out of control.

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Kim’s Dream Electric Coops Perpetuate Social Injustice

Let Justice Be Done Till Heavens Fall

SOCIAL injustice looms in so many ways in a highly skewed societal order. It is seen in the life of the peasantry telling the land not their own, and if they own the land, they do not control the mode of production and marketing. This is the reason why everyone profits from farming except those who work under the excruciating heat of the sun – the farmers.

It is manifested in the life of the Filipino buyers who are victims of so many marketing layers as everything sold in this country, from needles to tractors, passes at least five marketing layers. A bag of Ammonium Sulfate fertilizer which is just bought in Ukraine at P100 per bag is sold in

Mindanao at P1,500. Lipitor bought in New Delhi at 30 centavos per pill is sold in the Philippine pharmacies at P50.

But the height of social injustice is perpetuated in the life of the 13 million member-consumer- owners (MCOs) of so called Electric Cooperatives who until now are deprived of their fundamental right as shareholders of their respective multi-billion peso ECs.

Every time the MCOs will claim such right, they will just be told that they have only contributed P5 as membership fee. The truth is, in the unbundling of their monthly payment, it is shown that from the very beginning, each MCO has been paying two items as

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We can do the work of God

Yes, we can! Christ said it clearly. “Amen, amen I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do; and greater than these shall he do.”

(Jn 14,12)

Incredible, indeed! But that’s just how it is. If we would just bother to consider who we really are, then it should come as a given that we can do God’s work.

Our life is truly a shared life with God, since we are his image and likeness, sharers of his life and nature.

While all creatures enjoy a certain connaturality with God, the Creator, we of all the creatures enjoy that connaturality to the highest degree. We have been created in such a way that we just don’t belong to

I don't know how you feel nowadays, my dear readers. As christian the bible -and here especially Proverbs help me a lot. As I mentioned in one of my previous write ups, Proverbs is probably the most downto-earth book in the bible. Its education prepares you for the street and the market

God. Rather, we enter into the very life and nature of God himself.

That is why we are made a person, and not just a thing or some living plant or animal. As a person, we have been hard-wired in such a way that we can knowingly, willingly and freely relate ourselves not only with others and with all the other creatures, but also and first of all, with God himself.

Our spiritual faculties of intelligence and will can do that for us. That is why our life cannot help but be a shared life with others and with God himself. This is a basic truth about ourselves that we should try to continually remind ourselves of, if only to uphold it and their patronage contributions which are: a) the total amortization cost which is about P0.36/kWh and b) the provision for Reinvestment which is about P0.11/kWh. This means a monthly capital contribution of about P94.54 based on the monthly consumption of about 200kWh per month or about P1,134.48 per year. After all these years (about 80 years as MCOs), each one has a total patron- reinforce it, since we also have the tendency to keep to ourselves rather than to continually relate ourselves to God and to the others. Yes, we always have the tendency to fall into self-indulgence and selfabsorption. We have to be wary of this danger that is clearly becoming widespread. Self-indulgence and self-absorption are a constant threat, especially these days when good and evil are so mixed up that we would mostly likely be left