Three more Philippine firms continue to do the country proud in the spirit of corruption. The World Bank blacklisted Philippine firms Cavite Ideal International Construction and Development Corp. and CM Pancho Construction Inc. for four years, and E.C. de Luna Construction Corp. was barred permanently. Aren’t you proud of being a Filipino? Three out of the seven construction firms tainted with corruption around the world were from the Philippines! That’s the goddamn spirit.

“The newspaper headline gave the bad news that the World Bank had blacklisted three Philippine construction firms for corrupt practices, but on closer reading, the body showed even more awful news. The WB barred only seven such firms worldwide: Three were Filipino, and a fourth, though Korean, was caught with its hand in the till in a Philippine project.“

by Raul Pangalangan in his article “All those ethics seminars: A waste?” from the Philippine Daily Inquirer