By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Blame the lack of genuine agrarian reform in the country for the increasing number of urban poor and worsening urban poverty. Blame the Aquino government for continuing disastrous programs implemented by the previous...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- A year after she stepped down from office, controversies and scandals continue to hound former president and current Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Bayan Muna Representative Neri Javier Colmenares...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“The government should have given us permanent jobs instead of this (conditional cash transfer). Money is not permanent, we lose it in a day, unlike when we have a permanent job, we would somehow have permanent resources to spend for our needs,” – Angie Lorenzo, beneficiary
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) or popularly known as conditional cash transfer (CCT) was conceived to achieve the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The MDGs targeted eight international...
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The church-based group Rural Missionaries of the Philippines in Northern Mindanao Sub-region (RMP-NMR), which recently decided to reopen literacy and numeracy schools in Agusan del Sur and Bukidnon provinces is appalled by the...
By MARYA SALAMAT
The Japan meeting of leaders of the two parties to an ongoing peace negotiation is “a grand gesture on the part of the president,” Mohagher Iqbal told bulatlat.com. But he added that “the real thing is on the negotiating table.”
By LYN V. RAMO
"Justice has been too slow and elusive to the Moro victims of Arroyo’s fascist reign. Many of the victims who belong to the poorest sectors of Moro society have been languishing in jail for 10 years now." – Moro Christian Peoples' Alliance
By ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY -- The libel case filed against the publisher and the editor in chief of Baguio Midland Courier was recently dismissed. In a 13-page decision Tuesday morning, Regional Trial Court branch 61 Judge Antonio Reyes...
By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Old and new generations of the Cordillera cultural workers met and shared experiences on their 20th anniversary here, July 31. Under the theme, “Ibandera ti Kultura ti Wayawaya” (Foster the Culture of Freedom),...
A community of readers and supporters that help us sustain our operations through microdonations for as low as $1.