What’s the score?

 

IT has been two months we last heard of an update from the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office and the Provincial Anti-Drug Advisory Council.

While Pangasinenses are heartened by regular reports of accomplishments from a number of police stations that regularly do battle with the drug syndicates, arresting drug personalities in buy-bust operations, an unsettling vacuum is still felt by communities. Reports of huge volumes of shabu being seized in Metro Manila are encouraging but none of these seem to happen anywhere at any time in the province in spite of reports that the supply of the illegal drug has not been hampered or dented.

The column item of Sec. Antonio Villar Jr. (Read Deretsahan) about the seeming complete control of Dasol town by drug syndicates is very disturbing and seriously worrisome at the very least. If a town like Dasol can easily be swamped with illegal drugs, one can only wonder how other towns are faring.  Is the provincial government winning or losing the war? How many barangay kapitans have become conduits of the drug syndicates instead of being out in the frontline fighting it?

An update on the war vs. drug syndicates should indicate what the populace and the authorities are up against. Tell the people which of their barangays in the province continue to be drug-infested and infected.

 

Art of the possible

 

 SEN. Grace Poe keeps on solidifying her ranks while VP Jojo Binay is still desperately searching for his running mate. Meanwhile Mar Roxas finally gave a sigh of relief after Rep. Leni Robredo agreed to his sidekick. 

It’s Binay, who appears to be a bit in a panic mode now as his survey ratings are steadily going down, seems bent on tapping Sen.  Bongbong Marcos for his VP.

Meanwhile, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano had done it the unorthodox way:  He is courting Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to be his standard bearer when the senator from Taguig runs for VP in May, dramatically announcing his candidacy in Duterte’s turf that is Davao City. His aim is to present a Duterte-Cayetano partnership to the people as the way to Real Change.

Meanwhile, a big chunk of society went Poe’s way when leftist Partylist Rep. Neri Colmenares, the so-called congressman of the masses, brought the entire Makabayan bloc to support the Poe-Escudero tandem for the 2016 presidential polls.  “Sa Ibang Daan”?  

 Politics, indeed, is the art of the possible.

 

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