The legislated P125 wage increase is “long overdue” and, if approved, will only serve as “an immediate economic relief” for workers in this time of increasing oil prices and the value-added tax, said Anakpawis Party-list Rep. Rafael Mariano in his Nov. 4 statement. He said the wage increase will not pacify the people calling for…
Day: November 12, 2005
Business Alive
While visiting their dead last Nov. 1, All Saints’ Day, this family in La Loma Cemetery in Quezon City took the opportunity to earn some money by selling pre-paid loads passed from cellphone to cellphone, popularly known as the e-load. The e-load allows one to load a smaller amount of credits but expires more quickly.…
Counterpoint
Bulatlat.comBy Sarah Raymundo Posted by Bulatlat.com “they should have not let his brain spattered on the floor like that; or his eyes dismembered from his face it’s the kids, it’s too painful for them to have seen him so horribly lifeless or worse, remember him that way!” this widow’s work of mourning is as habitual…
The Reign of Empress Glorius Marius Arius the Terrible
By Tomas Talledo Posted by Bulatlat.com I. Our Empress shoves us into scoundrel time. Her terrible reign inverted our simple world: right is wrong and wrong is right. She wants us to praise her fineries but struts naked unashamed. She urges us to labor night and day but pays us clinks of coins. She bids…
Dousing the Embers of Hope: Canadian Gov’t Fails to Address Mining Abuses in RP
The Canadian government is not taking any drastic action against human rights and environmental abuses of Canadian mining companies abroad, including the Philippines By Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo Ibon Features Posted by Bulatlat.com The chances of getting the Canadian government to act on the proposals of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade…
Business Alive
While visiting their dead last Nov. 1, All Saints’ Day, this family in La Loma Cemetery in Quezon City took the opportunity to earn some money by selling pre-paid loads passed from cellphone to cellphone, popularly known as the e-load. The e-load allows one to load a smaller amount of credits but expires more quickly.…
Medical Transcription: Antidote to Brain Drain?
Four years after he graduated from a prestigious university here, Mark Dicaleng landed a job in a medical transcription (MT) company. He has only been with the company for a year but he is earning a five-digit income. By Lyn V. Ramo Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.comPosted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY — One need not go abroad…
Killing Dissent
A total of 120 political activists and supporters of progressive party lists and people’s organizations have been killed from January to October 26. For the sake of human rights, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her mean killing machine must be prevented from inflicting more harm on the Filipino people. BY THE Alliance for the Advance of…
Fertilizer Fund Cover-up Feared: Are attempts to hide the truth behind the fertilizer funds now taking place?
Peasant leader Danilo Ramos said some congressmen in Bicol are “fast-tracking” the distribution of fertilizer bags and even cash allegedly to refute claims that no farm inputs were distributed to farmers under the controversial P728-million fertilizer fund of the Department of Agriculture (DA). BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP or Peasant…
Increase in Remittances Due to More OFW Deployments Crisis, dwindling opportunities driving more Filipinos abroad – Migrante
Both a Filipino migrants’ leader and the top executive of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas say that the increase in remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) this year is due to the increase in the deployment of workers and professional for overseas jobs. This, in turn, is due to the economic crisis ailing the country.…
The ‘Corporatization’ of the Public Health System
Official statistics show that seven out of every 10 Filipinos die without ever seeing a doctor and that the nearly 75 percent of the population living below poverty line are mainly in rural areas where there is no access to basic services such as health and medical care. Yet the government has allotted a mere…