Month: November 2011

Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Sa workshop ng Malate literary journal, ang makatang si Allan Popa ang matulaing nagsalin ng cotton candy (paksa ng tulang wino-workshop) bilang “minatamis na hangin.” Mayroon itong dalawang lebel ng pagpapakahulugan: ang ordinaryong hangin bilang pahimagas, at ang extraordinaryong aksyon na patamisin ang hangin. Iniisip kong patungkol ang imahen ng…

By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Health workers who sued former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for human rights violations are dismayed at what they described as the slow pace of the local court handling the case. Six of the Morong 43, or the 43 health workers arrested on February 6, 2010 and detained for ten…

By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Relatives of journalists killed in the Ilocos and Cordillera regions supported the call for President Benigno S. Aquino III’s administration to work faster towards the achievement of justice especially for the victims of the Ampatuan massacre. The massacre on November 23, 2009 claimed the lives of…

By INA ALLECOR. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Members of the Makabayan bloc of progressive party-list groups in the House of Representatives are circulating a draft resolution against special treatment for ex-president and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Arroyo has been charged with electoral sabotage and the police and judicial authorities are currently in a quandary as…

By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The overriding and unstated premise in the controversy over the “constitutional crisis” provoked by the Supreme Court order allowing former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former First Gentleman Miguel Arroyo to travel abroad and the Justice Secretary’s insistence on barring them from leaving on the basis of a departmental “watch…