Month: January 2005

After FPJ’s death, the opposition is in seach of a leader who could unite its fragmented membership. Susan Roces is reportedly the one being eyed to perform such a mission. Pundits describe Da King’s widow as an honest and elegant lady–but advises her to stay away from politics. Susan herself said she doesn’t want to thread the path that her husband went through. It could be recalled, however, that even FPJ was reluctant to enter politics at first. It remains to be seen if Susan will yield to the request of her husband’s followers.

Meanwhile, Loren Legarda, FPJ’s running mate in last year’s elections, seems interested to take the post should Susan continue to refuse. Like FPJ, Loren also lost but filed an election complaint against Vice President Noli de Castro. Widely perceived as an ambitious woman, Loren was a People Power 2 icon who later became acceptable to the Estrada-FPJ camp. Let’s see if she’ll make it.

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Lately, there have been persistent talks of destabilization and coup d’etat or another EDSA-type People Power revolt. The anticipation of the latter was heightened during the wake of Fernando Poe Jr. Luckily for President Arroyo, no such uprising happened. But with the President’s unpopularity and the reports that the opposition is convincing Susan Roces to lead them, as well as the constant threat of Revolution being waged by communists guerillas, the new year also brought with it the air of political uncertainty. I’m sure many of us are bothered by the question “Will Mrs. Arroyo finish her second term?”

“Arroyo may not last through 2005,” says a recent report by Alexander Martin Remollino of Bulatlat.com.

Bloggers who run ads on their sites–and earn anything from it–may now help the victims of the earthquake and tsunami that hit parts of Asia last month by pledging to the local Tsunami Earthquake appeal the January proceeds of any advertising on his/her website.

“Stay alive and whole for the coming year,” is the Department of Health’s message to the Filipino people during New Year celebrations. In its Oplan Iwas Paputok Website, it reported that “about 760 Filipinos nationwide reportedly suffered from blast injuries after the Christmas festivities in 1995.”

Meanwhile, from 8:01 a.m. of December 21, 2004 to 7 a.m. today, there were already 585 injuries recorded in 50 hospitals nationwide, said Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit in an INQ7 report. Eight deaths due to firecrackers were also reported, with seven of them due to an explosion that razed firecracker stores in Bulacan early morning yesterday.