{"id":17183,"date":"2025-10-25T23:18:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=17183"},"modified":"2025-10-25T23:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:18:52","slug":"investigation-circus-on-corruption-damaging-ph-image-abroad-cayetano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/investigation-circus-on-corruption-damaging-ph-image-abroad-cayetano\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018INVESTIGATION CIRCUS\u2019 ON CORRUPTION DAMAGING PH IMAGE ABROAD &#8212; CAYETANO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SENATE Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano on Thursday warned that the Philippines&#8217; image abroad is suffering because corruption investigations are being handled &#8220;like a circus,&#8221; saying the spectacle is embarrassing millions of Filipinos who live and work overseas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;As a minority leader, my main concern now is how the world sees us,&#8221; Cayetano said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We have more than ten million Filipinos abroad, and so many traveling every day. But the way we&#8217;re doing it, na parang circus araw-araw, lubusan na naaapektuhan ang image ng ating bansa,&#8221; he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cayetano said the government&#8217;s current approach to addressing corruption has become unsustainable and overly theatrical.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Hindi sustainable \u2018yung paraan kung paano natin ina-address ang massive corruption&#8230; Kailangan may major reforms, tunay na pagbabago, at may makulong,&#8221; he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He stressed that the problem has gone beyond politics and is now shaping how the world perceives Filipinos as a people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Filipinos who travel are being mocked, and people are saying we&#8217;re corrupt. If you count everyone involved, maybe it&#8217;s not even ten thousand people. But because of the way this is being handled, all 110 million Filipinos are being judged,&#8221; he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cayetano urged government institutions to conduct investigations with fairness and discipline to restore respect for the rule of law.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We have to stop being distracted and start being decisive,&#8221; he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SENATE Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano on Thursday warned that the Philippines&rsquo; image abroad is suffering because corruption investigations are being handled &ldquo;like a circus,&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17185,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183\/revisions\/17185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}