Dear Editor.

As an investor I have been on a mission near impossible which is to try to assess the fear factor in the Philippines. If people are fearful, then they won't buy goods, factories willclose as a consequence and we get more unproductive poverty.

And the population explosion continues amid the collapse of the family planning program which suffered from the leaving of now Senator Juan Flavier from the control of the Department of Health. So we witness the uncontrolled baby boom by mothers who often live off garbage and give birth amid garbage to babies who are doomed to die from brain damage due to malnutrition.

A survey claims: "Undersecretary Veronica …