PH’s future top foreign visitors

CHINA is seen as emerging as the Philippines’top source of foreign visitors on account of “exceptionally stronger government to government relations between the two countries.”

In a matter of months, we could see China dislodging Korea as our No. 1 supplier of foreign tourists.

And there’s no question the surge in Chinese vacationers is due to President Duterte’s wisdom and foresight in reaching out to China, which has the world’s largest middle class with the disposable income to travel overseas. Mr. Duterte has effectively unlocked the economic value of Chinese sightseers.

Foreign tourists create a huge demand for goods and services that we as a country have ample supply of, so our economy is benefiting in a big way from the influx of Chinese visitors,

The Philippines and China have long had very warm people to people relations.— Buhay Rep. Lito Atienza

***** Five things the PNP chief must do

FIVE points the Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief must do (avoid the overused propaganda of going after scalawags as these are merely the by-products of corrupt police officials):

1) Create the Police Defenders Office (the PNP Chief must have realized the necessity of such office, pencil pusher officials will never understand the hazards of a police operative facing harassment suits).

2)ReleasetheCDP/CIPdirectlytotheATMofourpoliceoperatives,fromthenationalheadquarters,nottothe regional offices or other layered bureaucracy.

3) Allocate court duty allowance (specific and not just subject to contingency by the commanders) especially drug cases.

4) Issue an order that the national headquarters, regional offices and similar offices recipient of dismissal/ suspension orders from the Office of the Ombudsman/ Civil Service Commission/ PLEB/ Napolcom and other similar offices covering police officers to challenge/ review such orders with the assistance of the Legal Service instead of immediately implementing it.

5) The PNP Chief must remember this: The PNP does not need superficial programs. What it needs is to look after the welfare of its men.

“A happy police officer makes a strong PNP; A Strong PNP makes the nation strong.”— Clarence Paul Oaminal