No sense of community
Jose Ceralde
2 June 2010
There was a time when Bonuan used to be the envy of the outlying places in Pangasinan and nearby provinces. I used to walk in front of the national highway (Dagupan-San Fabian) in front of our house. Now I have to run so I would not get run over by the heavy traffic.
The roads used to be clean as our kapitan always came around and talked to the people about the trash in front of their yards with small pep talks. Shamed by the litter in front of their yards, our ka-barangay folks cleaned up.
Nowadays, it would take a barangay court to get the people to conform to the simple sanitation standard of daily life. Did we as a people lost our sense of shame that we need to go to court just to clean our yards? It’s like being in the senate hearings where government demands proofs is taken to court, as pointed out by the OMBUDSMAN. It seems people here now need to be more sly or clever than their neighbors.
The rains here just started but every heavy rainfall is followed by floods on the road and in every lot. The man-made floods are caused by the trash no body has the sense to pick-up. I cited Bonuan because it is where I live but as I go around every community, the situation is no different.
I visited a house in Malued and the affluent homeowner who has a three-story house has to put wooded walkways because its first floor is flooded. Why? Because the smart road engineers decided to build an elevated roadway without adequate drainage and maintenance plan to clear them.
Here’s my question to my fellow SP posters – Is there a solution to this problem? Each time I come home every year, it seems the problem gets worse with the wheels of progress or deterioration depending upon your take of these.
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