BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat Fr. Felino Bugauisan, assistant parish priest of Rapu-Rapu and chair of Sagip-Isla (Save the island), a multi-sectoral organization opposed to mining operations in the island off Legazpi City in Albay, threatened to file charges against LGU officials who allegedly accepted P100,000 in exchange for their signature to the MoA with Lafayette…
Day: May 28, 2006
Rising Tuition Pushes Youth Out of School
BY ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat “Even as Filipinos now have reached the summit of Mt. Everest, the youth remained at the bottom under the administration of Arroyo. Education has become harder to reach and achieve,” says League of Filipino Students (LFS) High School chair Hiyas Garduce says of the Filipino youth’s current condition. Reynaldo and Roy…
This Retired Navy Officer Has No Place to Go
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat Sitting on the front porch of his quarters at the Bonifacio Naval Station (BNS), retired Navy Capt. Julian Advincula watched from a video camera the tape that captured how members of the Philippine Marines forcibly evicted his neighbor-colleagues from their own quarters at high noon of May 20. “Tingnan mo yang…
Maligalig on Navy eviction: ‘This Is Going to Explode’
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat Two retired officers of the Philippine Navy said the eviction of retired Navy officers from the Bonifacio Naval Station would create another stir among the military. Two retired officers of the Philippine Navy said the eviction of retired Navy officers from the Bonifacio Naval Station in Taguig last May 20 would…
Exit from Parliamentary Arena Would Be Victory for Persecutors – Satur
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Satur Ocampo admits that for a while, amid what he describes as “political persecution” of representatives from progressive party-list groups, there were those within their ranks who raised questions on whether it is still worth it to participate in the parliamentary arena. “If we leave…
RP Economy: On the Road to Success or Perdition?
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo told the recent 27th National Conference of Employers that by working with her government, they can take the country to the “Enchanted Kingdom of First World Success.” But the country is nowhere near the road to success. On the contrary, it is well on the road to perdition.…
Death Squads, the CIA and Political Killings in Central Luzon
BY ABNER BOLOS Gitnang Luzon News Service Posted by Bulatlat Stanley Karnow, in his book In Our Image, said the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the U.S. government brought the concept of death squads to the Philippines, specifically in Central Luzon, in the early 1950s through known CIA operatives Gen. Edward Lansdale and Charles Bohannan.…