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Kabogman has left a new comment on your post “Entrepreneurial Farmer”:

We rejoiced upon hearing the news that the bandstand will finally be spared from demolition. We applaud your up to date and detailed reporting regarding this issue. I know that it is now time for all of us to move to the stage of healing and reconciliation regarding this controversy. For the sake of reporting accuracy, however, I would like to make a comment to clarify the content of your story, especially the use of the word “sensitivity”.

This word usually means reacting appropriately to the emotions or situation of other people, or being “tactful”. Based on your story, Mr. Maming only agreed to make an “amicable” settlement after a suit was made in court, which meant that his decision was made under duress and constraint, and not from his own volition because of a sincere realization of his mistake or from the newly found goodness in his heart.

I believe that the word was not the correct term to depict his action. Otherwise, he should not have waited for the court to intervene. His almost rabid reaction to those who opposed his position was not compatible with a sensitive person. In any case, I fully appreciate his willingness to concede to the wish of the Banganhons. I also believe that you were just trying to use appeasing and conciliatory words to describe the event and were not consciously or deliberately praising him excessively for a certain reason. (It is not necessary to indulge in semantic: It was enough that Mayor Antonio Maming has yielded to reasons.

Maaeaman has left a new comment on your post “Entrepreneurial Farmer”:

It was a Divine Intervention, indeed. Alleluia! I completely agree with Barok that Mr. Maming’s turnaround was not due to a sincere change in his heart but due to the grace of God. It is only Him who can transform a “worldly” man and be confused as someone who is “sensitive” to his constituent’s needs and desires.

My belief is that Mr. Maming was sent by God to test the integrity and fortitude of all the Banganhons. A few of us passed the test.

I hope this controversy will open everybody’s eyes and give a lesson to those who “lost their way”, as Mautakono fittingly described them. Repent! A second test is usually more difficult. Laugh Out Loud!

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “Editorial”

If you want to expose ILLEGAL construction in Boracay, you should check Boracay West Cove in Diniwid Beach. The building was built on the shore, 5 stories high, NO BUILDING PERMIT of course and backup by politicians. /MP