The Office of Civil Defense should already begin looking into programs or dusting off existing ones that will map out a civil defense strategy in times of conflict as the rest of the DND takes on the other equally important task of modernizing the Philippine military.

The burning question: in the event the DENR will rescind the Original Certificate of Title – and therefore all improvements therein will be forfeited to government, including Manresa Town and the Masterson Campus of the Future – will Xavier University Ateneo de Cagayan follow the rule of law? Or will it be, like many of our traditional politicians, a law bender?

COMMENTARY: Will PBBM be the national leader who will ultimately break this selfish and corrupt elite curse on Philippine governance? Probably not within his time since after all he is a beneficiary of the largesse his parents siphoned out from the country’s coffers.