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Editorial of the Bohol Chronicle, Oct. 14, 2007


The institution must be able to paddle its own canoe - and fight competition on its own merits. A Government must not receive wherewithal because of patronage politics - but because it deserves the funding.

And it will get the funding because withholding such will sabotage the National Government's own medium-term plan. How is that?

For example, an airport has to be built with international standards in Panglao - because without that - the targeted tourist number and spending will not be realized and thus upset foreign exchange rate and national budget assumptions. A humongous dam must be built in fertile Bohol in order to raise grain productivity - without which we will have the ignominy of importing rice (our staple food) from the countries our scientists in Los Banos taught how to plant hybrid rice a few years ago.

A concreted network of roads had to be built as a necessary adjunct to flow of commerce and trade and bring farm products from site to market - thus contributing in scaling down (national) inflation - as our provincial contribution.

Above is an ideal state that Bohol must not stop dreaming on.

What is the practical reality now?

"Strike while the iron is hot" - is what our provincial and congress leaders may have to do - to maximize the mileage of close affinity with President GMA during the last 30 months of the Governor and Representatives Edgar Chatto and Roberto Cajes. Use the Palace leverage to bring the line agencies' projects to benefit the island-province, that's what.



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