Stable hands and challenges ahead

WE are down to 16 days in our countdown for the 16th president, who is about to end his term, and the 17th has made some good recruits and some let-us-hope-for-the-best ones in terms of Cabinet appointees.

One of the most welcomed and applauded appointments of the 17th president is that of his economic team, composed of four males, all from the University of the Philippines: Ben Diokno, Felipe Medalla, Arsenio Balisacan and Fred Pascual. A Maranao lady joins the economic team in the person of Mina Pangandaman, a product of Far Eastern University and University of the Philippines (UP).