Mosquito fish to the rescue

FLOOD prone towns and cities like Dagupan City, Calasiao and Sta. Barbara, and towns that perennially register a high number of dengue cases, should heed the advice of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).

Their local governments should begin to use the mosquito fish as the dominant lethal weapon dengue-carrying mosquitoes. It is available for dispersal for free and for immediate deployment in communities. Aside from bullfrogs, this fish preys on larvae of mosquitoes, meaning they are eliminated even before they mature and fly out.

The strategy of attempting to eliminate the airborne mosquitoes is a bad and ineffective strategy. Likened to a war strategy, a strategic offensive plan is to attack the enemy at its most vulnerable point, and before it can send a deadly air force.  Kill the mosquitoes before they can fly.

The traditional strategy of defogging to beat the flying mosquitoes has been proven not only to be costly but hazardous to community members’ health.

The mosquito fish can be had for free and is environmental friendly. The only effort needed to make it effective is for barangays to organize daily to see where mosquito fish can be made to function effectively, meaning to look out for stagnant water!

 

Lovers’ quarrel

WHEN married couples fight, it’s usually called LQ (lovers’ quarrel) and is generally considered a private matter as well. But when one of them is a public official and is being accused by the spouse of a wrongdoing, the quarrel takes another dimension.

That is the scenario in the ongoing rift between Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Andres Bautista and his wife, Patricia.

In a sworn affidavit, Patricia has publicly charged Bautista of maintaining ill-gotten wealth having allegedly received commissions from both his Comelec position and as then chair of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG). Andy has denied the charges, countering that Patricia is blackmailing him and is guilty of infidelity as well.

As Majority Floor Leader Tito Sotto puts it, Patricia’s accusations “are of epic proportions,” and if a Senate probe finds him guilty, he will be impeached, stripped of retirement benefits and barred from public office.

Now, why would a wife want to send her husband—a high-ranking public official at that—to perdition?  Money? We don’t think so.

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