By DAISY C. GONZALES, MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN and JOSE HERNANI
After eight years of government control, the mineral reservation site in Diwalwal has been eyed by big interest groups, leaving Velasco and more than 40,000 villagers in a constant threat of displacement. Small miners resent government’s policy allowing big private mining firms to take over the site.
COMPOSTELA VALLEY — The AFP is lying when it charged the NPA of recruiting child soldiers. Worse, it is in fact the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) who has been doing it, recruiting and using child warriors. This is the gist of a statement emailed to Bulatlat by Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesperson of the…
NEWS RELEASE 7 July 2010 Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno slammed Manila Electric Co.’s (Meralco) power rate hike of 5.8 centavos per kilowatt-hour for this month, saying consumers want an end to the “roller-coaster” pricing of Meralco which is suspect of price manipulation. In April, Lopez-owned Meralco hiked its power rates by P1.20 per kWh…