By MARYA SALAMAT
ALNAPEDKU, the group of kuliglig drivers who protested on Dec. 2, believes that the solution to the kuliglig problem is not an outright ban but regulation. The group is asking the government to recognize them formally as a mode of transport, since social practice has granted them that for years already.
Sidebar: Kuliglig Drivers Condemn Violent Dispersal by Police, Gain Lawmakers’ Support
By ADELA DEYAEN WAYAS Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY –“Many go hungry among the poor,” Gerry Cacho of the Tongtongan ti Umili (TTU) said regarding the report of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) that the price increases in the region are minimal and justifiable. Cacho stressed that the poor are the…
WCC Alarmed by Rights Violations
By ADELA DEYAEN WAYAS Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY – Cypress Irisan settlers displaced by the demolition implemented by the city government here last November 30 are asking for humanitarian assistance. In an interview, Villanueva Patting, secretary of Irisan Peoples Action against Demolition and for Good Governance (IPADeGG), said the city government should…
By Northern Dispatch ?Posted by Bulatlat VIGAN CITY–Around 2,000 students, administration staff, faculty members and other school personnel of the University of Northern Philippines (UNP) joined the protest action against budget cuts beginning December 1. ? “Today, we gather as one to make a strong voice to oppose the threat of stealing the youth’s future…
By Northern Dispatch ?Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY — The Cordillera youth are disgusted with the Aquino administration’s efforts to white-wash the 1.9B budget cut on state universities and colleges in the 2011 national budget. Now, more and more students, teachers, non-teaching personnel and parents are expressing their support for the student protest actions against…
I. Rehas Isang karsel ang dibdib; kulungan itong binibisita ng kanyang istetoskop upang tukuyin ang sakit ng kasukasuan at nakalagdang kirot sa ubod ng kalamnan. Bawat lapat at diin, kasabay nang malalim na buntung-hininga, ay maingat na paghimaymay sa s/ugat ng pag-iral. Nanumpa siya kay Hipokritus at ito ay kanyang tinanganan; mapadako man siya sa…
Research group IBON calls on lawmakers deliberating on the budget for the controversial Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program to look into the resulting additional debt burden that Filipinos will shoulder to repay the program’s loans. Depending on interest rate trends, initial IBON estimates are that the Philippines total loan service for the World Bank and…
BY Cheryll D. Fiel Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY – Two former Bombo Radyo Davao broadcasters Dennis Lazo and Arthur Borneo filed a complaint of illegal dismissal before the National Labor Relations Commission regional officer here last Wednesday December 1. Lazo was terminated from work as anchorperson/reporter last August 10 and Borneo on…
BY Cheryll D. Fiel Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat.com COMPOSTELA VALLEY — The New People’s Army (NPA) released last Sunday November 28 a soldier they seized at a check point in Sitio Mabatas, Barangay Upper Ulip in Monkayo town, Compostela Valley province. Corporal Daiem Amsali Hadjaie of the 25th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army…
BAGUIO CITY — The Baguio-Benguet chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) strongly condemns the Presidential Security Guard (PSG) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) maltreatment of a local reporter who was covering Pres. Noynoy Aquino’s ribbon-cutting at the Jollibee-Harrison in this city, Friday, November 26. A PSG wearing a white…