Jewelry dealers are doing a brisk business in Jolo, and the growing pool of dollars is drawing swarms of money changers from Zamboanga.
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Better governance is needed on poor islands such as Jolo, so that the law of the gun, jihadist or simply criminal, is less persuasive.
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Governments of countries with citizens among the 21 people held on Jolo appear to be growing impatient with the Philippine government's attempts to preserve its no-ransom fiction.
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