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MY MOTHER TONGUE

Posted by Jun Dumaug on Friday, August 19, 2011, In : Current Philippines Issues 

MY MOTHER TONGUE

On The Occasion Of the Linggo Ng Mga Wika

I am so passionate with my mother tongue, the Cebuano, the dialect of the Visayan speaking nation. Sometimes on my extremities, I offended others along the way.  I may not be blamed for that for I am raised in a family who believed that ours is suppressed by the superiority of the national leadership.

My wife totally disagrees with me on that line, although like me she loves Bisaya. I understand my wife because she’s a Psychology...


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THE PROPER TIME FOR CHARTER CHANGE

Posted by Jun Dumaug on Monday, August 1, 2011, In : Current Philippines Issues 

THE PROPER TIME FOR CHARTER CHANGE

 

A  constitution is an important legal document of a State for its enactment is prompted by an event or events that significantly change the course of our nation’s history. It is indispensable for it resolves the rages of that time and gratifies the actors of that historic event by making their actions institutional or foundational, whether they are the powerful few or the majority of the citizens or a portion of their territory.

The passage of the const...


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PORK BARREL POLITICS IN PHILIPPINE BUDGET

Posted by Jun Dumaug on Thursday, July 28, 2011, In : Current Philippines Issues 

PORK BARREL POLITICS IN PHILIPPINE BUDGET

From the common Filipinos, our country’s budget is a technical maze, incomprehensible and irrelevant to his daily economic activities. Not knowing that the enormous amount in our annual budget will be taken, or unarguably stolen, from the pockets of every Filipino.

PNoy’s submission of his P1.7 Trillion 2012 budget for Congress’ approval means that our government, through legislation, will be taking a portion from our own earning to raise tha...


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Zaldy's Offer's a Bait

Posted by Jun Dumaug on Tuesday, July 19, 2011, In : Current Philippines Issues 

I read in the papers today the offer of Zaldy Ampatuan to be a state witness and his statements against his father and alleged confirmation on electoral frauds and corruption committed by the previous administration.

It is an offer that any ordinary man can easily dismiss it as non-sense. As they say in the old days that it takes a devil to bite a devil’s bait. Sometimes we hear things like this when someone is victimized to the baits of thebudol-budol gangs and you wonder why in the first p...
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Jun Dumaug Roderico Y. Dumaug, Jr. known to friends simply as Jun Dumaug is a graduate of Political Science in MSU-IIT, finished Bachelor of Laws in Mindanao State University (MSU-IIT Extension Class). He had been actively involved in politics started as SK Chairman, Barangay Councilor and Barangay Chairman in Kiwalan, Iligan City. He is widely known in his advocacy on transparent and efficient public service. His desire to evoke a needed change for the country is never forestalled despite losing twice to a city-wide election as City Councilor and to eventually lose the seat as Barangay Chairman. The author resides in Kiwalan, Iligan City, married to Lorelyn Galarrita Turtosa and they have a son, Patrick Francesco. In this website, he shares his insights to the world on political and social dynamics of local and national politics.

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