Category: News and Articles
Last Sona thoughts
August 2, 2021Hopefully our resilience as a people will pull us through this protracted crisis and 10 months from now when we choose our next leaders, we will have learned from all the hard lessons and not make the same mistakes.
PROTECT FILIPINO CONSUMERS FROM ONLINE SCAMS!
July 28, 2021According to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, digital transactions exponentially increased by over 5,000 percent during the pandemic as people would have to conduct business online in lieu of face-to-face transactions. However, the e-commerce boom has also provided an opportunity for cybercriminals to take advantage of unwitting online consumers. CitizenWatch Philippines calls on government regulatory […]
PRIORITIZE LEGISLATIONS THAT WILL SAVE OUR PRIVATE SCHOOLS
July 22, 2021CitizenWatch Philippines supports the call of private schools urging President Rodrigo R. Duterte to prioritize in his upcoming State of the Nation Address (SONA), pending legislation in Congress that aims to save our private educational institutions from onerous provisions in BIR RR 5-2021 increasing income tax by 150%. House Bill No. 9596 and Senate Bill […]
Sage geopolitical advice to the administration
July 19, 2021by Orlando Oxales originally published in The Manila Standard “Malacañang’s response was characteristically crass and insulting.” The 5th Anniversary of the 2016 arbitral ruling was marked with rising indignation spurred by the continuing incursions of Chinese vessels and their unbridled destruction of the marine environment in our Exclusive Economic Zone, a strategic resource of our food supply. […]
LGUs need digital connectivity to boost COVID-19 response and vaccination roll-out
July 15, 2021The fight against COVID-19 is far from over, and nothing short of an all of society synergy and a total victory against the virus will get us back on track to development mode.
SAVE OUR PRIVATE SCHOOLS
July 14, 2021CitizenWatch calls on the government, the business sector, and all other stakeholders to take a stand and join our fight to save our private educational institutions from imminent collapse due to the ongoing pandemic and the proposed implementation of a 150% income tax increase. Private education accounts for 9% enrollment in elementary, 22% in Secondary […]
A vital resource of modern reality
July 12, 2021If our current power problems are not solved soon, then the prospect of recovery and the road to a new prosperity looks dim.
Listen to and engage the private sector
July 5, 2021Innovativeness and nimbleness are natural traits of the business sector in contrast to the regulatory and bureaucratic government culture. The government must empower the private sector to do its thing which is to invest, create jobs, boost the economy, and spread prosperity. Learning from the lessons of the pandemic, we have an opportunity to build a much better world.
A Total Approach to Climate Change
June 22, 2021Everyone is at risk of becoming a victim of natural disasters. Many scientific studies have ranked the Philippines in the top 10 natural disaster-prone countries in the world. Despite this, the country is still largely reactive to the effects of climate change. We are hit by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and typhoons more often than most […]
Fostering Economic Advancement Without Jeopardizing National Security
June 14, 2021The Philippine senate has set to expedite deliberations on Senate Bill No. 2094 or the Amendments to the Public Service Act (PSA) which aims to amend the 85-year-old PSA by differentiating “public services” from “public utilities’’ and as a result, allow 100 percent foreign ownership of public services that are not considered natural monopolies. Such […]