PDU30’s advocacy: Firecracker ban

AT the rate firecracker manufacturers were developing and selling their products guaranteeing louder explosions but without warning the public of serious and dire consequences to life and limb, this year would definitely see more casualties crowding emergency rooms of hospitals.

But thanks to the wisdom of President Duterte, there will be less families that will be permanently traumatized by New Year revelry.  For the first time since 1992 when R.A. 7183 (An Act Regulating the Sale, Manufacture, Distribution and Use of Firecrackers and other Pyrotechnic Devices) was passed, we have a government that’s finally keen on strictly enforcing the law as ordered by Mr. Duterte’s Executive Order No. 28.

Of course, the expected unprecedented strict enforcement will toll the knell not only for the manufacturers and vendors for this seasonal industry, but for the bloody practice of macho revelers. But in hindsight, it’s the price they have to pay for the thousands of maimed revelers including children, who were never warned of the deadly consequences for using them.

They succeeded in developing and marketing the most dangerous and lethal firecrackers, it’s time they pay the price for their greed.   And finally, the manufacture, selling and  lighting of illegal firecrackers will be taken as a serious violation of the of the law

And as the Davao City experience has shown, there is life after a complete ban on firecrackers.

 

Beginnings

EVERY New Year is a beginning.  We make a list of resolutions aka promises in the hopes of completing one season on a high note.  Anytime, that is a morale-uplifting endeavor.  At the start of the year, our passion to fulfill them burns like acetylene.  The table calendar and the ubiquitous tiny notebook become instant virtual dartboards for updates on the progress of self-imposed chores, if not targets, to make life more meaningful as the days of the year flit by.  Let’s keep that fire ablaze all year round.

It is a very commendable habit, one that symbolizes our eternal love affair with everything positive.  It is a reminder, too, that this world is not all wine and roses. Failures happen but from each of them, lessons learned abound.  If we just brush aside an error with a mere cold-shoulder treatment, ignoring its potential for a great turnaround, a shame, indeed.

It is when we succeed that mistakes matter in the end.

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