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Sunday, November 25, 2007 |
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SPECIAL
REPORT:
BARANGAY AND SK MESS
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Sangguniang Kabataan creator: Abolish SK! |
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Senator Pimentel wants barangays converted into
bigger and viable economic units
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Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr.,the
“Father of Local Autonomy” and the lawmaker who “created”
the Sangguniang Kabataan, are among the millions who are disgusted
with the monster that the SK has become. He now wants the SK
abolished.
He is also unhappy with the performance of some
barangay officials and this most basic political and administrative
unit’s failure to achieve its potential.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Neglect, abuse, graft are most common charges
filed against barangay officials
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Critical appraisal heaped on barangay chairmen
and council-members’ conduct and performance range from negligent,
lazy and incompetent to greedy, corrupt and murderous—just like
those used to describe higher government officials.
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Social scientists, politicians, youth leaders
unite to kill SK
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OUTRAGED by the trapo-linked politics of candidates in the last
barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, social scientists,
politicians, youth and student leaders are moving to abolish
barangay elections and abolish the SK itself.
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The barangay and SK’s ugly parade from Marcos
to Arroyo
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First of three parts
BARANGAY and Sangguniang Kabataan elections have
always been a theater of fraud. They mirror the best and worst
in the Philippine politics.
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