Update: Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma issued the following statement on Inquirer’s story on his statement re President Aquino’s failure to take HK’s Donald Tsang’s call last Monday. See story in the comments:
The headline of this story is not correct.
When I was interviewed over ABS-CBN this morning, I did not state nor imply any “doubts (that the) HK chief called (President) Aquino during (the) hostage crisis” last Monday, August 23.
The report quotes me as having said, “Di kapanipaniwala yan dahil ‘accessible’ siya sa lahat ng oras.” (That is unbelievable because the President is accessible all the time).
What I referred to as being unbelievable was the claim published in earlier newspaper reports that President Aquino was “inaccessible” at that time.
The following story came out in the South China Morning Post today, Aug. 26, 2010:
[Raissa’s note: I am posting this with the permission of my editor. Just to clarify, I did talk to foreign affairs spokesman Ed Malaya to get the department perspective but he declined to comment. ]
It was the case of the telephone calls that didn’t get through.
An anxious Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen was never put through to Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Monday. Despite at least two phone calls, Aquino’s aides did not tell their head of state that Hong Kong’s leader needed to speak to him.
This is how it all started:
It is 4pm – the hostage crisis has lasted for more than five hours. Tsang, watching the drama unfold on television, is desperate to contact the new Philippines leader.
Some time after 4pm, Tsang’s staff dial the main line to Malacanang Palace. They try again about four hours later. Both times they speak to an Aquino aide, but the president does not get the messages. Later that night, with eight Hongkongers dead, Tsang is close to tears at a press conference. He demands an explanation. “I hope the Philippine government can give me a full account of what happened.”
An account of that breakdown in communication between Hong Kong and Manila emerged yesterday, with Malacanang admitting it had passed on the responsibility of handling the phone calls to the Department of Foreign Affairs, according to protocol. Hong Kong, after all, does not handle foreign affairs, Beijing does. The department’s envoys did not follow up that night.
Tsang eventually got to speak to Aquino the following day, after the latter had met the Chinese ambassador.
Ricky Carandang, who heads the Presidential Communications Group, said Aquino was not aware of the first call because he was in a meeting and because the call came in through the palace’s main phone line with no prior notice. Carandang said the caller was an aide of Tsang, and an aide of Aquino answered the phone. He said Aquino’s aide knew who Tsang was, but was unsure it was really from his office.
The palace contacted the Foreign Affairs Department to set up a phone call through Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, in what would be diplomatic protocol. Presidential spokesman Ed Lacierda said he phoned Romulo’s spokesman Ed Malaya to convey the request to arrange a conversation between Tsang and Aquino. No word came back, so Lacierda tried to phone Malaya again three times but could not reach him. The department declined to tell the Post why no one returned Tsang’s calls that night.
After his telephone conversation with the president on Tuesday, Tsang said in a video posted on the internet: “The first thing he told me was that he was sorry for not having called me back [on Monday] because he was then busy commanding the operation.”
But citing unnamed sources, Filipino journalist Ellen Tordesillas had a different take on the debacle. She said Aquino had “told his staff [that day] that he won’t be taking any calls unless it’s extremely important. When Tsang called, the one who took the call didn’t know who Donald Tsang was. Following the instruction, the staff member did not pass on the call to Aquino.”
Yes Ellen, from unnamed sources inside the palace too — he was in fact, sleeping that is why he didn’t want to be disturbed
There it goes again…something’s not right here, no one could be this incompetent?
…as someone I read (but forgot who it was) always says in times like this “something’s afoot!”
Incompetents talaga kahit may protocol pa, if true na pinadaan sa office ni Malaya sa DFA. Ang gulo nila!
Sinong pinoy ang hindi magagalit sa incompetence na ganyan?! What really transpired?
Kung ako si PNoy, pagsisipain ko lahat ang inutil na yan!
I don’t know chi, but i’m beginning to be like xman here, the overall picture of the series of events (the mendoza incident only being one of them) seems to appear as it its “deliberate incompetence…”
Alam mo jug, why not focus on Berto Romulo? If true that PNoy ordered DFA, for protocol purposes, to handle any foreign calls re hostage crisis. Suspetsosa ako talaga, pero yan kaagad ang naisip ko right after reading Raissa’s piece. In fact, pati yang incompetence ng pulis, parang sinadya. Good kung meron tumitingin sa anggulo na yan, pero kung hindi pansin yan ni PNoy, God have mercy on us! Someone is playing us….
Kaya nga I stand by my galit…pagsisipain ko lahat yan, kung ako si PNoy!
Phone call lang di pa ma handle ng maayos! Kakahiya talaga. Puro excuses. Nakakagalit na! Dami kasi mga amuyong sa paligid ni pnoy (at sa Gobyerno in general). Dami kasi mahilig sa balato! What a way to make a living????
But the call was routed thru the Romulo’s DFA…no wonder!
This is a link to an article by Christine Avendano in Inquirer this morning.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20100826-288868/Palace-exec-doubts-HK-chief-called-Aquino-during-hostage-crisis
I read the article several times just to be sure — Is Sec. Coloma calling Donald Tsang a liar?
I tell you guys, something is going on here…
My conspiracy thinking…yeah they are out there from within trying to discredit our legitimate President Pnoy! They are afraid of him..his influence among the many who voted and trust him!
I agree with jug. What I can’t still comprehend is why these incompetent superiors just filed “leave” when they ought to resign. PNP & DILG heads’ lack of coordination and options are exposed big time here. It’s very clear pangongotong lang ang alam nila. Their brains don’t work during crisis situations. It’s been happening since time immemorial, ang pinoy lang madaling makalimot. Mr. President, get rid of dysfunctional elements under your command! Tama na. Sobra na. Taxpayers’ money have been wasted too much on people we depend on for our security, peace and order and can’t even do their job right!
olan, there’s a alot of way how to destroy the government of our legitimate President Noy.. kaya huwag tayong padadala…
Sino yung kausap ni Ex Capt. Mendoza sa cellphone before or during inaabot ng mga negotiators ang envelop from Ombudsman?
Nakakapagtaka kasing mabilis ang reaksyon ni Mendoza without analysing the content.. nasabi nya agad na basura yung document…
From CNN…analysis
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/08/25/philippines.hostage.fallout/index.html#fbid=ypKXloLkWz0&wom=false
these dysfunctional and shameless remnants of the previous lame-duck president should all be fired! mr. president, take heed lest you fall and the whole country falls with you again! tama na sobra na!
Jug, Chi, naiiyak na ako. Look at this breaking news at the Inquirer. Another Palace official opening his mouth without finding out the whole story.Complicating things.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20100826-288868/Palace-exec-doubts-HK-chief-called-Aquino-during-hostage-crisis
Palace exec doubts HK chief called Aquino during hostage crisis
By Christine O. Avendaño
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 11:07:00 08/26/2010
MANILA, Philippines – Reports that Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang had called President Benigno Aquino III at the height of Monday’s hostage crisis in Manila were “unbelievable” because the President was “accessible all the time,” a communication official of Malacanang said Thursday.
“Di kapanipaniwala yan ’dahil accessible siya sa lahat ng oras [That is unbelievable because the President is accessible all the time],” Secretary Herminio Coloma, head of the Presidential Communications and Operations Office, told ABS-CBN’s program “Umagang Kay Ganda”.
Coloma was reacting to Tsang’s reported frantic phone calls to Mr. Aquino last Monday and his complaint that he could not reach the Philippine leader.
“If [Tsang] called the office of the President, his call will be received. Even if the President left the Palace for a short while, he could still be reached because his mobile phones are with his aides,” Coloma said.
Palace official said that Mr. Aquino was not aware that Tsang had called him but when he learned about it, he called Hong Kong’s top official on Tuesday to express his government’s deep sorrow for the hostage crisis that ended with the death of eight Hong Kong tourists.
Incompetence and Conspiracy!!!
During the actual hostage crisis at the scene of event, it involves a question of competence. It is not plausible to think that there is a script being followed according to a conspiracy against Aquino.
YUng sa pag handle ng mga tawag ni Tsang during the hostage crisis at hindi nakarating kay Noynoy ang tawag, pwedeng pinagsamasamang incompetence at confusion. Karamihan sa mga Pinoy, nakatutok sa hostage drama kaya it is also safe to assume na si Noynoy ay nakatutok din sa nangyayari sa Luneta. SA ganitong problema, pwede bang mag iwan ng instruction si Noynoy na wala syang kakausapin sa telepono except ang mga taong involved sa hostage crisis sa Luneta?
Kung naitalaga nga sa DFA ang pakikiusap sa mga opisina ng ibang bansa, ang hindi pakikipag ugnayan ng mga taga DFA ay question of competence na naman. Yung conspiracy among DFA officers to discredit Noynoy is remotely improbable. Kahit na muhi ako kina GMA, hindi ko rin naman mapaniwalaan na ang mga kampon ni GMA ay nagoperate sa DFA para pahiyain si Noynoy during the hostage drama.
Nasaan nga ba ang mag palkung Romulo at Malaya noong kasagsagan ng hostage taking?
This is crazy, its like saying Tsang is lying…what for? why would Coloma say something as irresponsible as this?
“The first thing he told me was that he was sorry for not having called me back [on Monday] because he was then busy COMMANDING the operation.” – D. Tsang
He was in command naman pala.
It seems the above statement is exclusively for the ears of Donald Tsang. It’s an Aquino admission of a botched or a palpak operation that he personally commanded to soothe the nerves of an angry Donald caused by two telephone calls that got” lost” and the untimely death of his 8 citizens. The strange thing was the return call to Tsang was done the next day and only after meeting with the Chinese ambassador. Baka nagkaroon ng” homily” kaya napilitang mag-return call.
While Noynoy said to Tsang that he was too busy COMMANDING the operation, over there in Manila, the reason given why he was nowhere to be seen was he was too busy MONITORING the situation. Commanding and monitoring are two different kinds of “birds”. Now which is which?
Whoever is in charge or in command of any operation is responsible of any outcome resulting thereof. If Noynoy admitted to Tsang that he was in command, then the first real test of his leadership miserably failed. In every turn it’s failure. It’s incompetence from top to bottom.
Going back to the “lost” telephone calls from Tsang, the communication group of Noynoy tried to pull the leg of everyone. But it’s obvious that they are just making palusot.
The bottom line, the group is trying hard to cover the ass of someone.
florry,
Its command responsibility basically, so what do you suggest now, we do a people power demanding Pnoy’s resignation? or we look deeply at what really is happening here?
Naguusap ba yan sina Carandang at Coloma? ano sila, miscommunication group?
I do believed that they continue on with their evil plans..to discredit pnoy many times over but one thing I know for sure many Pinoys learned their lessons as well. They can try and maybe succeed but this time around many will not just sit around to watch pnoy fall. They will FALL and they will fall HARD!
The obvious, knee jerk reaction, for normal people who get all these information is to swallow the “incompetent president” bit hook line and sinker…we already succumbed to that in Erap’s time…
Any manager is only as good as his people, he has to decide based on information given to him, advise, and the playbook…
…if what florry is insinuating that the president literally hid under a table, closed his eyes, and told everyone not to bother him as he can’t take all this…I hope it isn’t…
Haay, Coloma, para kang mga spokespersons ni GMA. It will not do Noynoy nay good kung pagtatakpan mo ang nangyari.
These people trusted by Noynoy and hired them as his aides are not giving him any respect at all.
“Its command responsibility basically, so what do you suggest now”. – jug
I suggest fire all the incompetents. As you said, any manager is as good ….. then maybe his trusted aides are the contributing factors in the incompetency of the office of the pres.
As if on cue, GMA and cohorts make their move…
Allies of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, now congressional representative of Pampanga’s 2nd district, quickly pounced on the alleged inefficiency of the Aquino administration to defend her own track record in hostage crises…..
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/08/25/10/minority-solons-praise-gma-hostage-crisis-handling
I tell you florry, Pnoy needs to do his homework, talk to Erap, I remember the former president saying something about Pnoy shoud be careful about some people around him or something…
I suggest fire all the incompetents. As you said, any manager is as good ….. then maybe his trusted aides are the contributing factors in the incompetency of the office of the pres.
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You have a major, major point here…although I really want to see Pnoy show some sort of assertiveness, its as if he allowed himself to be limited by his advisers…its good to have advisers but sometimes you have to listen to your heart, your own conscience…so many leaders have fallen by ignoring their inner voice…
jug, Sino kaya ang nauna, yung mga allies ni Putot o ito: Arroyo gov’t also to blame for hostage-taking crisis — Palace
tongue,
I read that too, but I really can’t swallow the whole incompetence thing…these guys were trained, they had equipment, we all saw the textbook approach they had in Manila Pen, they have the gear, the training and the skills…I’m sure because I know some of them…something is really wrong in this picture…
what i really hope to see here is aquino addressing the nation, the people…i know it will be ill advised, but i hope he asserts himself, talk directly to the people, apologize if need be…his source of stregth is the people, he has to connect…
…i also have this stupid, nagging, doubts, schizo thoughts, that our presidents are not really in power at all, maybe unwittingly or khowingly, and that sinister forces are pulling the strings, aministration after another…
This always boils down to incompetent staff or simply a sabotage issue. This communication boo boo is a big one. Lives of people (foreigners) were lost.
I am currently watching the senate hearing now.
Coloma should learn when to keep his mouth shut…
…and Pnoy should realize by now that his staff are filipinos, they do not perform well under an “orchestral type” of management where each member knows and performs his job in the context of the whole arrangement without the need for close supervision…he has to lay his own ground rules…otherwise, he will be following their groundrules…and the result will not be a harmonious melody but a series of uncoordinated notes contradicting themselves ending in so much noise and confusion…
Follow up ko lang sa #29 ni Jug.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/199464/rep-gma-extends-condolences-to-hk-china-leaders
So Erwin Tulfo was involved?
MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE) Broadcast commentator Erwin Tulfo arrived at the Quirino Grandstand at around 3:45 p.m. on Monday to help in negotiating with dismissed cop, Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza, for the release of his foreign tourist hostages and a Filipino bus driver.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20100823-288400/Broadcast-commentator-Erwin-Tulfo-to-help-in-hostage-negotiations
Follow up ko lang sa #29 ni Jug.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/199464/rep-gma-extends-condolences-to-hk-china-leaders
Don’t recall this twat extending condolences to the 50 plus murdered in Magindanao.
This one is hot.
It’s a video uploaded by Ruffy Biazon on Youtube. It’s that of the male hostage who appears to have been shot (0:14) with a bullet coming from the outside. This, while Mendoza was shooting at the rear windshield. This must be the man who was caught on video several times while the cops were smashing the door as I told you probably got hit by the sledgehammer twice when the cops lost grip.
Now, I’m entertaining wild thoughts. Was it really Mendoza whose body was hanging out of the door or just this guy who had been shot much earlier? Note that the door glass was still intact at this point. I don’t understand Chinese (or Japanese) Can anyone translate what the annotators were saying, pls?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXk4eoaN5X4
Statement of Secretary Herminio “Sonny” Coloma on the Inquirer story on Pres. Aquino’s failure to take Donald Tsang’s call during the hostage crisis:
The headline of this story is not correct.
When I was interviewed over ABS-CBN this morning, I did not state nor imply any “doubts (that the) HK chief called (President) Aquino during (the) hostage crisis” last Monday, August 23.
The report quotes me as having said, “Di kapanipaniwala yan dahil ‘accessible’ siya sa lahat ng oras.” (That is unbelievable because the President is accessible all the time).
What I referred to as being unbelievable was the claim published in earlier newspaper reports that President Aquino was “inaccessible” at that time.
Seems there are 2 conflicting statements from Aquino:
1. “After his telephone conversation with the president on Tuesday, Tsang said in a video posted on the internet: “The first thing he told me was that he was sorry for not having called me back [on Monday] because he was then busy commanding the operation.”
Ellen, can this statement be verified?
2. Because in his official statement after the hostage crisis, Aquino said “We were going to wait him out. The idea was to let the ground commanders who are the experts in this field handle the operation with minimal interference from people who are less expert.”
If he was commanding, he lied in his statement. If he wasn’t, he lied to Tsang.
I don’t see anything remotely conflicting there legallyin…, as overall commander you oversee the ground commanders and allow them space to do their job…thats basic…
So that was Coloma’s angle…good grief…
…Pnoy must put a “period” to all this once and for all.., perhaps by addressing the country, apologizing, acknowledging the mistakes, what he plans to do about it, and totally dismissing all blame throwing at the Arroyo administration (as this will backfire on them and is not good policy)…because there isn’t much else to say…move on from this…
Ellen,
I don’t actually like Rex Robles because I think half of what he says comes from his backside but his comments in this Inquirer article makes sense:
I might add, Gloria’s gutter 10 years, her admin’s corruption and ineptitude produced an entire generation (this generation) of equally inept police force with nothing to show for except glaring incompetence unless specifically tasked to do hooligan jobs.
Gloria allies (especially her son, incompetent junior hoodlum Mikey Arroyo and that bitch Elena Horn) must not gloat — they should bury their goddamn heads in shame for their champion bitch’s gutter legacy.
The TRUTH and LIES of Capt. Mendoza melodrama hostage-taking event!
MUST READ! “POSTSCRIPTS TO A BLOODBATH”.by Meg Hermoso Encina ʚϊɞ on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 1:30pm
This is from someone by the name of Bang Lu Min who commented on the yahoo article. I got excited to post this that I accidentally closed the browser. You see, I’ve been waiting for some survivors to open up and apparently, one has posted his/her view on the comments. If you ask me, I think this is true. If you follow the situation, the comment is quite accurate. The slashing of the throat is also there. Postcripts To A BloodBath Mr. Mendoza was already upset even before he saw on television what the policemen did to his brother. The other tourists who remained inside the bus were complaining. Wei Ji Jiang wanted to go to the bathroom. Dao Chi Yu was hungry and the rest were just groaning and whining like they have forgotten that our lives rest in Mr. Mendoza’s hands.
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After all ng incident na ito…ang nakakainis po e nagtuturuan kung sino ang dapat managot sa nangyaring ito…heto pinag-uusapan na din sa Senado…live pa.
Kailangan may managot nito…paano na yong naging biktima nang kanilang kapalpakan?
A note: Was just watching one of the videos and I noticed that there was a window of opportunity to take down the hostage taker (full view by the bus door) but why wasn’t he taken down? To negotiate with him? What on earth for?
Pity they could have called on the Navy Seals (SWAG) who could have done the job of finishing this sorry event with much better result.
juggernaut,
then why was he too busy to talk to Tsang if he was just overseeing “the ground commanders and allowing them space to do their job?”?
Balweg, that account has been verified to be fake. It’s a fiction. There’s no such person among the passengers in the bus.
Balweg,
Is this true? That post of yours make for good chilling, dramatic reading but am not buying.
legallyinn….,
There was a call from tsang but…it never reached him because the staff didn’t forward it right?(see earlier threads)…the staff didn’t recognize who was calling, and besides, they have been given instructions that he wasn’t taking any calls “unless” it was very important…
balweg,
thats not real, there is no hostage named whoever that is…please verify, ellen already did…
The writer was just a good writer. It’s fiction. That’s why I shortened your post. let’s not be a party to what is not true.
Sadly, this won’t be the last “terrorism” act by an individual that the Aquino govt will face — he must learn from the costly mistakes made. Time for him to be presidential. Take the bull by the horn and go on the “offensive.”
What I find a bit shocking was his standing by Versoza and his reasons for doing it. He must “sacrifice” him! Versoza failed as a major commander. His head must roll, good achievements in the past or not. (It’s similar to the military tenet that a good commander must know that there comes a time when they must not hesitate to send their best men to their death when required.)
(It’s similar to the military tenet that a good commander must know that there comes a time when they must not hesitate to send their best men knowing they will be going to their death when required.)
DFA Romulo’s head must roll too! He should have advised Aquino to call Tsang as soon as the stand off began instead of waiting for Tsang to call.
What an idiot!
Romulo must resign!
Robredo must submit his resignation as a show of delicadeza! Up to president to accept or not. This tragedy of epic proportions requires for heads to roll NOW!
And the person who did not pass on Tsang’s call must be FIRED!
if this statement is correct “The first thing he told me was that he was sorry for not having called me back [on Monday] because he was then busy commanding the operation.”, it has nothing to do with the the allegations that his staff didnt recognize who was calling or didnt consider his call important because his statement refers to returning a call not getting it.
besides, malacanang has already explained why the call didnt happen – http://www.gmanews.tv/story/199479/why-did-donald-tsang-fail-to-contact-president-aquino
i am only referring to his reasoning (i.e., his own words to tsang) why he didnt return the call.
President should come out publicly with a short “to do” list in the aftermath of this tragedy (with a short description of how he intends to overhaul, modernise, etc., the PNP and — would be a good jab at Gloria the bitch too!). Don’t wait for the goddamn investigation to be formally finished. He’s the effing commander in chief — he should act decisively.
i am only referring to his reasoning (i.e., his own words to tsang) why he didnt return the call.
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of course you do know that he can’t say its his staff’s fault right? so he took the flak for everybody…if tsang beratedhim in their private conversation, he must have taken full responsibility because tsang didn’t have much to say…
of course you do know that he can’t say its his staff’s fault right? so he took the flak for everybody…if tsang beratedhim in their private conversation, he must have taken full responsibility because tsang didn’t have much to say…
wow, too many assumptions there. regardless, if true, its lie (and one to a head of government). which is what i said from the beginning.
Ellen,
To me, this entire sordid “Tsang called Aquino first” event should be placed squarely on the moron at the DFA!
Romulo as the foreign relations “expert” — putangina nya, should have advised his president immediately TO CALL the head of government or the chief executive of HK to apprise him of what RP govt is doing at the very least instead of waiting for the other fellow to make the call.
That guy failed miserably and disgracefully as chief “protocol” adviser to the president in doing the right thing thus causing the Philippines, the RP presidency, the people, etc., etc., untold international damage (in addition, of course to the lives lost during the effing moronic siege of the bus). It was the one thing that president needed to do immediately at that level! Goddammit — one didn’t need to be a protocol or foreign affairs expert to know this. All one’s got to do is to read newspapers and to mimick (putanginang Romulo na yan!) what other heads of state do under the circumstances.
Romulo, you blundering useless moron, resign now! Fucking idiot.
Aquino’s Palace staffer did the right thing. Tamang ipasa o verify muna from DFA kung tunay yung call. Kasi it could have been a prank caller using Tsang’s name.
Remember the big joke that a radio personality played on Sarah Palin pretending he was French president Sarkozy? That joke was aired live.
The protocol is: the chinese call the foreign affairs department and convey their desire to speak with Aquino. The foreign office then calls Aquino, briefs him, and then the two leaders speak.
A foreign leader does not cold call his counterpart through the office trunkline. If anyone is at fault then it is the foreign office. They were sleeping in the pancitan. (Unless of course the chinese didn’t know protocol and actually cold clled Aquino.) If I were Aquino I would bitch slap or fire Romulo for running a sloppy operation.
The Palace staffer did the right thing.
Good point you raised there Manuel! Why hasn’t this occurred to the comteam of Aquino to say to the press?
Indeed forgot all about that joke on Palin. But as you say, Romulo’s job at that precise moment was to advise, nope, insist that Aquino call HK head of govt.
Ellen, ngitngit na ngitngit ako talaga kagabi pa. Imagine ha, PNP and DFA seemed to launch a perfect storm to show a weak and powerless PNoy. Image destroyed, successful sila! “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way. ” – attributed to FDR (?)
Tapos heto isa pang magulo na Coloma adding to the already very confused situation. Dioskoday!
Baka ang mangyari nyan maging headline “PNOy’s government napabagsak ng isang telepono”!
Kung magsasalita lang si Kris ngayon kung ano TALAGA ang nangyari sa telephone call na yan at sino-sino ang culprits, I’d easily believe her, hahaha!
Fire them all, PNoy…para mo ng awa, show some mettle!
This is crazy, its like saying Tsang is lying…what for? why would Coloma say something as irresponsible as this?-jug
Because he’s a jerk! Coloma is a has-been, bakit ba nandyan yan, PNoy? I hate to say this, but leave him to your Mom…please. In the age of FB and Twitter, Coloma has no place kasi masyadong mabilis ang ikot ng mundo at hindi na sya makasunod!
Chi, Coloma was absolutely clumsy in his comments. He said later on (according to a later entry by Ellen) that was not what he meant. For one tasked with communicating with the press, his communication skills seem to be extremely flawed.
The protocol is: the chinese call the foreign affairs department and convey their desire to speak with Aquino. The foreign office then calls Aquino, briefs him, and then the two leaders speak.—>manuelbuencamino – August 26, 2010 6:19 pm
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Next to Jackie Chan, so far, you are the only one who has made a lot of sense.
If we look back, the Administration of GMA we criticised as bad as it was, and it was aggravated even more by the people working for her…it looks like the same is happening with President Aquino, his staff is just as incompetent, or even worse, playing the famous Erap’s weder, weder principle of it is our turn this time around. and it is showing the way his spokesperson are contradicting each others (meaning the truth is somewhere) and the staff which ignores the call at a very important point in time…without verifying and do something about it in a quickest possible time…
Now we know that protocol is useless under Bert Romulo. Might be that Tsang knows the incompetence of Berto kaya dumeretso sya sa opisina ni PNoy not knowing that his staff are incompetents, too!
Anna, you can say it again. 🙂 Coloma elicits anger and laughter, he’s useless.
@jawo
thank you poh.
Chi, useless DILG-PNP leadership too…
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20100826-288906/AFP-elite-team-offered-for-hostage-crisis-but-never-used—-spokesman
I was sure that the AFP would be offering its services. As I have earlier posted, I was confident the SWAG (PN SEALs) (on their own) would’ve done a much much better job!
And I meant ONE SWAG team!
Hello Ms. Ellen and to all bloggers here,
A newbie here. Ms. Ellen I’ve been a regular reader of your items in Malaya and Abante. I’m likewise interested in the passionate discussion here in “Ellensville”. What prompted me to join in is the free and varied expression of opinions and thought-of conspiracies coupled with jokes and fun.
I have a son working in Hong Kong as a network engineer of an internet security outfit. He just called me and his mom and yes, he and other Filipinos over there are experiencing the ire and backlash from Hong Kong people because of that deplorable Bloody Monday Incident. Things like denial of simple service such as buying cellphone load has happened to them. He says that they have to stay away from crowds as much as they could to avoid any possible backlash. It may take long till this hate and resentment subsides, he says.
I hope and pray that our government does really honestly work hard for the protection of Filipinos in Hong Kong and China where sentiments are really running high. It is worrisome to read and learn of the ongoing dysfunction in government over the management of this sordid affair. As if nobody is really in-charge. All I can do is take a deep breath and assure my wife that things will get better.
Thanks.
Ok, we need a joke break here to lower our blood pressure. The author is unknown but here it goes:
Three ants spent the night on a lady’s body. One slept between her boobs. One slept in her ass and the other slept in her coochie. In the morning they got together to talk about their night. The one between the boobs said my room was really cramped. The one in her ass said he kept getting chased down a dark alley by a log. The one in her coochie said that’s not bad some bald guy kept coming in and spitting on me.
Malacanang communication group are transmitting in different frequencies. That’s why they cannot reach PNoy at height of the hostage crisis. As a result of series of blunders, we have a major major kahiyahan (national shame).
Sad to learn that ms. oystermushroom. That’s an expected result of the incompetence of the PNP and DFA leadership, and the president’s slow action. It will be better in due time when anger subsides.
Sobra kasing dami ang kusinero sa kitchen ni Noynoy, may kaniya-kaniya at halo halong ingredients na pinagsama sama sa isang recipe tuloy hindi natin malaman kung anong klase dahil hindi masarap ang amoy at lasa yong mga inihahain nila sa mga tao.
welcome oystermushroom. We hope and pray this will pass soon.
it’s not right to misled the people of true information. I thought Noynoy is honest?
Thank you Ellen for the welcome. And thanks Chi. To paraphrase a saying “first it’ll get worse, then it’ll get better”. I think we’re not yet at “worst”.
Just heard it on the news that Jinggoy’s travel docs were slapped onto (him?) a table. Aba e foul na yan. Nagpapakumbaba ka na gusto ka pang tapakan. Putang ina nila, dapat si Donald Tsang humingi ng apology, senador natin yon!
Pagka nangyari pa uli yan, puta sila, mabilis magkaisa ang mga Pinoy pag ganyan.