By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Literally, Pangarap Village is the fulfillment of the dreams of the residents. The land was awarded to them in 1973 by then president Ferdinand E. Marcos. But the Aranetas came back to once more stake its claim to the land, emboldened by a Supreme Court order in 1988 and the ascension to power of one of their own Mar Roxas.
SECOND PART: Aquinos and Aranetas conspiring vs ‘land to the landless’ and the urban poor
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com FIRST PART: Aranetas’ claim to the their land turn residents’ hopes and dreams into a nightmare (Second of two parts) Fortades and Gomez were killed when the security guards of Araneta’s Carmen Development Inc., allegedly drunk, opened fired at the vigil site set up by the residents protesting the…
ByDr. Giovanni Tapang Prometheus Bound / Manila Times We spent the long break back at my hometown in Malolos where my ten year old nephew keeps his pets around. He has several of them including a brood of bantam chickens, a flock of pigeons, three dogs, and their ever present cats. One would wonder how…
A vendor sells potable water to food stalls in a street near Sto. Nino Church Cebu City. Photo by Clemente Bautista (Bulatlat.com)
Desperate to free their ambulance from waist-high ruts an emergency health worker hopes that one added man power will accomplish what hundreds of horsepower failed to do. This, in a country where politicians shamelessly plaster their names everywhere to remind everyone of their monumental failures. No word on the fate of the patient. (Bislig City,…