This time the world will witness President Aquino’s ineptitude as the Philippines hosts the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Manila this week. In contrast to the brand new surroundings that greeted them in past summits, even in 1996 at Subic Bay, the APEC world leaders and delegates will be treated to decades-old facilities.

The Aquino Administration isn’t just being stingy with its funds, nor is it faced with a severe budget deficit problem – the World Bank itself had pointed out that it was too slow in releasing infrastructure funds that this had pulled down our GDP growth.

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