The sound of silence is deafening

THESE men are doing good work and good deeds — unnoticed. Quietly, they excel in their fields without the usual ostentation and media blitz.

One is lawyer Eduardo Bringas, who works under the Anti-Red Tape Agency aimed at facilitating the speedy release of relief goods and cash assistance to Filipinos who need these the most.

Recipients of the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) will now be able to monitor in real time the tracking of the goods in the barangay (village) level to the recipients. The concept is based on Republic Act 11032 or the “Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of 2018.”

The Bayanihan Platform is a collection of integrated enterprise-grade component solutions designed to streamline government procedures by promoting collaboration between and among government agencies tasked to respond to the pressing needs of our country. The platform ensures automated registration and transfer of funds to ensure quick distribution of amelioration;

Another unassuming entrepreneur is engineer Dennis Anthony Uy. He is not the same Dennis Ang Uy — the Davao-based Chinese-Filipino businessman and diplomat, who is a native of Davao City, and the founder of Udenna Corp. and has a stake in Phoenix Petroleum and 2GO group that is engaged in transport and logistics businesses.

This Dennis Uy started from humble beginnings. Starting from the bottom of the business pyramid, he worked as a maintenance boy cleaning refrigerators and freezers in his uncle’s retail store. He is now the chief executive officer of Converge ICT Solutions Inc. Dennis was the first to provide internet to Clark locators and the first to go into fiber optic technology.

To date, Dennis has acquired more than 40 cable TV companies because licenses were awarded per town. This allowed him to cover the whole of Central Luzon, Metro Manila and Batangas.

While others were still using the traditional technology, Dennis was already into fiber optic since 1996 using the new micro trenching machine technology.

His first business venture was video tape rentals. During his college days, he was already selling and renting out Betamax VHS tapes to his classmates. After school, he would board a bus for Manila where he would proceed to Greenhills to buy all the new movies, videos and Atari games in VHS tapes. After getting everything he needed, he would board the Pantranco bus again just in time for his morning class.

Then came the birth of ComClark Network and Technology Corp., a cable TV and broadband company. Eventually, some establishments were opened in Clark starting with Mimosa Hotel.

Converge ICT is a major provider of telecommunication and cable television services in the Philippines. It operates fiber optic broadband networks, cable television marketed as Air Cable and cable internet marketed as Air

Internet in the country. It currently serves fiber optic internet access in Metro Manila, and the provinces of Pangasinan, Tarlac, Rizal, Cavite, Pampanga and Bulacan

*** Blaming China is an easy task for the United States. Most political pundits believe that the main reason is the forthcoming US presidential elections. I also think that World Health Organization (WHO) bashing is a no-brainer tactical move to boost President Donald Trump’s chances of reelection. Desperate situations call for desperate moves as they say.

Let us educate ourselves on the recently concluded World Health Assembly. The assembly is the decisionmaking body of WHO. This congregation is attended by delegations of WHO member-states, usually held annually in Geneva, Switzerland. Its main functions are: to determine the policies of the organization, appoint the director-general, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed program budget.

Bashing WHO is a natural windbreaker for a stormy and tumultuous weather condition. China’s President Xi Jinping personally participated through video conferencing in the deliberations to discard nuances created by Trump to distract from his nose-diving popularity back home.

The kicker was when Xi announced that he would provide global access when a new vaccine is tested safely and will give it free to poor nations, without profits for China. These promises were drowned out by the Western media’s howl to make China pay the biased provocation for an “independent investigation.”

But WHO has jumped the gun by getting its 196 member-countries to approve a WHO-initiated investigation in the most transparent manner. Another development conspicuously buried was Xi’s pledge of $2 billion over two years to help fight coronavirus. He also promised that China would work with the Unite Nations to set up a global humanitarian response depot and hub in China, ensure the operation of anti-epidemic supply chains and foster “green corridors” for fast-track transportation and customs clearance.

Another commitment is that China will establish a cooperation mechanism for its hospitals to pair up with 30 African hospitals and accelerate the building of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters to help the continent ramp up its disease preparedness and control capacity.

Also notable is China’s initiative to work with other G-20 members to implement the “debt service suspension initiative” for the poorest countries. China is also ready to work with the international community to bolster support for the hardest-hit countries suffering the greatest strain of debt service, to tide them over current difficulties.

Good work, good deeds and good faith to all.