MANILA, Nov. 29 - Two hundred eighty families received an early Christmas gift yesterday as Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Michael Dino led the completion of all Yolanda resettlement sites so that typhoon victims could be transferred before Christmas.

Healing comes with great cost, especially on the heels of P-noy’s mis-governance. It has been 3 years, and the ghost of the past still haunts the administration who failed to rise from the situation. It was an ugly scenario, when the former DILG secretary Mar Roxas denied assistance, or to put it right, made it difficult for the LGUs to gather support just because they hailed from the rival parties. That was a painful demonstration and reality of political stalemates in the Philippine system taken into the most inappropriate of situations, in the middle of a calamity.