ROTA\u2014At day\u2019s end with staff gone home, Sen. Teresita Santos (R-Rota) sat quietly alone pondering the \u201cdead in the water\u201d economic activities back home.<\/p>\n
She looked at how Tinian has moved the needle of growth against all odds. \u201cIts leadership has a united stand and taken a more proactive common ground to make things happen for their people with civility,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve lost the desire to proactively work a common ground with civility as to head down the path to political and private industry crony partnership to ruin opportunities for our simple folks at home,\u201d she observed.<\/p>\n
The vicious environment triggered \u201cevacuation of our people to Guam and elsewhere in recent past knowing that the island they call home has become a hellish hole for them,\u201d she related. The combined political and business cronyism has denied our ordinary people an \u201ceven playing field\u201d to earn their dues, she said. \u201cIt placed the disadvantaged to seek for some semblance of hope that forcibly included evacuation from home\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s painful addressing this issue knowing our reputation as an island community that is friendly and generous with friends and one another,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is more the reason to reset the button of cultural camaraderie or unity and generosity where we extend the olive branch to our very own and begin anew.\u201d Santos said the prevailing attitude of destruction has viciously shut the doors of opportunity for wealth and jobs creation. \u201cIt\u2019s the concept of finding investments that eventually create jobs for our people,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoreover, it is even more painful meeting our people away from Rota who yearn to return home but there are no opportunities here where they could earn a decent living,\u201d she pointed out. \u201cThis must shift where we work the common ground with a sense of civility dedicating our collective effort to re-establishing \u2018home sweet home\u2019 once more.\u201d This simply means joining hands \u201cspreading the time-honored sense of compassion, generosity and outstanding fellowship among our people,\u201d Santos said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe outmigration of our people is a dislocation in the sense that among the many who have left is a drain of resources we need here at home,\u201d she noted. \u201cFor all we know quite of number of them could have begun small family businesses that provide job opportunities for our people an reviving the local economy\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking listening to our people elsewhere who speak of a good place with decent schools, hospital, jobs, and community where their kids could excel,\u201d she related. \u201cWhy can\u2019t we rework this so that in fact there are opportunities for families and the disadvantaged by empowering them with an \u2018even playing field\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s time to do this so our people need not find returning home a bitter experience,\u201d she said. \u201cComing home should be one sweet and enthusiastic experience to see the people and island where one\u2019s anchor was established,\u201d Santos related. \u201cWe should be mindful that they are our people.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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