Month: September 2011

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – The Philippines has the most expensive electricity rates in Asia, a study by International Energy Consultants (IEC) showed. The Philippines is also the only country with a privatized power industry and without government subsidy, according to IEC. Main Story: Epira, the culprit behind high power rates a>…

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL and RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – One of the reasons behind the expensive electricity rates in the country is the debt acquired by the National Power Corporation (Napocor). Main Story: Epira, the culprit behind high power rates a> Sidebar: The big three in the power industry Napocor’s debt, which…

By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiations between the Lepanto Employees Union–National Federation of Labor Union–Kilusang Mayo Uno (LEU-Naflu-KMU) and Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMC) hit a deadlock last August 27. “The company will not budge from its zero increase in the first year of the CBA; it…

By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Jeepney drivers and operators led by the Pinagkaisang Tsuper at Operators Nationwide (Piston) condemned in coordinated protest-actions all over the Philippines the alleged collaboration of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III and the three big oil companies in continuously overpricing its petroleum products. Piston chapters staged…

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The eyewitness, a busboy at the restaurant where Jonas Burgos was abducted, said he was about to help Jonas when a woman and three men approached him, one after another, to tell him not to intervene. One of them he later identified as Maj. Harry Baliaga Jr, who was then assigned to the 56th Infantry Battalion of the Armed Forces of the Philippines

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