EDITORIAL-CARTOONS: What’s next?
THE EDITOR
What’s next?
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Favored and protected
The past two weeks of the enhanced community quarantine over the entire Luzon have brought numerous reports of deliveries of basic goods such as vegetables and foodstuff barred from entering Metro Manila at checkpoints, ordinary citizens apprehended and/or fined for violating restrictions on movement and social interactions, and police and local officials imposing harsh, often conflicting guidelines on the observance of the quarantine in their specific localities.
And then there is this report that stands in stark contrast to all that: Last week, a group of 22 POGO (Philippine offshore gaming operator) workers was stopped at a checkpoint in Sta. Ana, Cagayan. The Pogo workers, who were in two vans and two delivery trucks, had breezed through all the checkpoints from Manila to Cagayan — thanks to two unusual escorts: Police Senior Master Sergeants Harold Corpuz and Clifford Ventura of Camp Crame’s Police Security and Protection Group (PSPG).
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No wonder that, with the President himself cheerleading for the Pogos, the sector struts around seemingly feeling inviolable; in the time of the quarantine, not only is it exempted from the rules thrown at lowly folk, it even enjoys police protection. Unless the PNP is able to provide an adequate explanation for the presence of the two police escorts in that Pogo convoy in Cagayan, and sanctions them severely for their moonlighting while also getting to the bottom of who authorized such assignment, it may have to live with a new designation: PNP — or “Pulis Ng Pogo.”
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EDITORIAL – Food security
While families hard-hit by the enhanced community quarantine and extreme lockdowns worry about where their next meal will come from, farmers in the Cordilleras were recently forced to discard truckloads of their vegetable harvest because of their inability to sell the crops.
READ MORE: https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2020/04/02/2004895/editorial-food-security
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Most people understand the objectives of the COVID-19 quarantine and are willing to cooperate with the measures to protect public health. In turn, the government must see to it that the most basic need of people for food security is also protected. / The Philippine Star
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EDITORYAL – Kahit may krisis, patuloy sa pagsalakay ang NPA
Hindi na makatao ang ginagawa ng New People’s Army na patuloy sa pagsalakay sa mga sundalo kahit may dinaranas na krisis ang bansa. Hindi na iginalang ang ceasefire na sila mismo ang nagtakda at walang patumanggang nilusob ang mga sundalo na nagsasagawa ng community works kaugnay sa nararanasang epidemya ng COVID-19. Hindi na dapat maniwala sa mga teroristang grupo. Hindi sila dapat bigyan ng pagkakataon sapagkat katrayduran ang kanilang ipinakikita.
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The Straits Times says
Bosses must avoid taking easy way out
The National Wages Council (NWC) has intervened in the economic uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic with a number of worthwhile recommendations. The council has prioritised what employers should consider to sustain businesses and save jobs. First, they should reduce non-wage costs, and consider various measures to utilise and manage excess manpower. Second, they should tap government support to offset business and wage costs, and press on with business and workforce transformation. Third, they should trim wage costs. Fourth, if it is necessary to retrench workers as a last resort, they should ensure that this is done responsibly.
