Philippine Tribune received a letter from a concerned member of the Filipino community about the Filipino MPC. He said that “the perception is that the MPC belongs to the Filipino community, but in practice this is not so because Filipinos outside the constituted board of directors simply do not allow it. Rules and regulations on the use of the MPC facilities are designed and decided without consultation with the community.”
He added: “It has been almost 20 years now, and the promise of a truly useable centre is yet to materialise. Several members of the board have been inactive, leaving the centre’s management to a few who seem to have run out of ideas about taking the MPC project to its objective of building the facilities and offering the service that it has been ordained by its constitution to provide. One community complaint, which I see as a legitimate one, is that the board was constituted as a permanent one — more like a kingdom with exclusive and absolute power. In a democracy like ours, this is unacceptable, although legal. The MPC board has reacted angrily at critics without considering the community’s real concerns. They should step down and be replaced by others with new ideas.”
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