By Flon Faurillo Bulatlat.com President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo have grand promises of bringing the country to the Enchanted Kingdom of economic development, creating “super-regions” and training “supermaids”, even as majority of the people are faced with joblessness, the rising cost of fuel and basic products, the utter lack if not absence of social services. Pres. Arroyo…
Day: August 12, 2006
Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans Frontières
Open Letter Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo President of the Republic Malacananga Palace Manila, Philippines Dear Madam President, Reporters Without Borders, an organisation that defends press freedom throughout the world, hails your statement on 1 August giving the police and the justice department 10 weeks to solve the murders of at least 10 journalists and left-wing…
PNA Prexy Charged for Suppressing Investigation
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – A criminal case of obstruction of justice was recently filed by professional nurses in this city against Philippine Nursing Association President Dr. Cordero for his alleged efforts to cover up the investigation on the June 11 -1 2 nursing board leakage. Cordero allegedly urged complainants…
Babala sa Tuko
Ni Bienvenido Lumbera Bulatlat.com Noon nabosesan ka na namin. Ngayon narito ka na naman para magsinungaling. Binulgar ng Garci Tape ang iyong krimen — Batas ng Diyos, batas ng tao dadapurakin, Taong-gobyerno gagamitin, Pondo ng bayan lulustayin, Boto ni FPJ dadambungin, Basta pagka-Pangulo tuloy-tuloy maangkin. Dahil nabulgar na, ikaw mismo ang umamin, Sa TV, nag-astang…
Man Hides for Days, Crosses Rivers to Escape Military Abduction
4 JASIG holders missing A person who says he was abducted by military men and may have been a goner had he not escaped from his captors will be presented as a witness in one of three separate petitions for writ of habeas corpus filed by human rights lawyers before the Supreme Court (SC) on…
Breast Is Always the Best – DOH
Owing to the successful advertising and promotion of breastmilk substitutes intended for infants and young children, 98.6 percent of Filipino infants are formula-fed with cow’s milk. At six to seven months of age less than two percent of Filipino infants are exclusively breastfed. By Maria G. Salamat Bulatlat.com When Tina, a first-time mother, was awkwardly…
‘Supermaid’ Solution Proves Permanence of OFW Deployment
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced last August 3 the upgrading of skills and knowledge of Filipino domestic helpers who want to work abroad so that they can become what she described as “supermaids.” The move is said to address the economic dislocation brought about by the evacuation of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) deployed to war-torn Lebanon.…
Kalinga Folk Bury Alyce as Protest Mounts vs Death Squads
Tabuk doctors close clinics in outcry over Claver ambush Sunburnt farmers and indigenous elders joined doctors, lawyers, religious, local government officials, student youth and progressive groups in holding a protest funeral and demanding justice for the Clavers and other victims of death-squad killings and abductions. by Kimberly N. Quitasol NORTHERN DISPATCH Bulatlat.com TABUK, Kalinga —…
Cordillera Reds Vow to Punish Attackers of Claver Family
“How dare they ambush a helpless family, murder a woman of their own kin, and put in danger a child’s life?” the spokesperson of the Cordillera People’s Democratic Front said of last July 31’s attack on a doctor and his family. By Ace Alegre Bulatlat.com LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – New People’s Army (NPA) guerillas vow…
Just by the Corner
Photo by Dabet Castañeda Bulatlat.com A jeep loaded with lumber gets additional passengers as rain-soaked young men hitched themselves to the vehicle’s rear, for a ride “just up to the corner”. The jeep drives through a flooded street in Hagonoy town, Bulacan province (52 km. north of Manila), where waters rise knee-deep every high tide,…
Martial Rule
NI Rey Tamayo Jr. Bulatlat.com Sa bawat paghakbang ng nag-aalangang mga paa. Dala-dala’y takot at pangamba sa puso na nangyayanig, Isipan nama’y waring dinudurog ng mapanggipit na alalahanin. At itong mga mata ko ay natatakot nang tumingin sa paligid Sa pagkadupilas ng paningin sa madugong pangitain, Kaya’t ang salamin ng katotohanan animo’y pinipiringan. Matitipunong mga…