Yet another Milk Launch and More Encouragement for the BDP

There has been the ever-increasing dismay as the realities of the BCL closure which were spelt out by the Business Weekly’s ‘A Gruesome Autopsy’ (October 2). Is it really possible that the government knew what it was doing when it closed the mine?

Or was this another knee-jerk decision? There was the news that the Water Utilities spent P8.3 million on a supposedly cost-saving consultancy to retrench 318 of its staff, that is P26,000 for each one! (The Voice October 27) Or is that what these exercises cost nowadays? It would seem that this consultancy could have cost more than it saved. Highly-paid CEOs and top administrators do seem to take the most extraordinary decisions nowadays.