By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“Our present salary grading is not at par with the prevailing salary schedules for the equivalent positions compared to other workers in government. The disparity ranges from three to five grades.” Comelec Wage Fight Alliance
by INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Billions of pesos are earmarked for irrigation and road projects, and the money will be handled by a department that critics say is prone to commiting acts of corruption. The alliance of fisherfolk Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) urged anti-corruption watchdog groups to look…
by INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Bayan secretary-general Renato Reyes said the failure of the government of Benigno Aquino III to file a criminal case against the former president has put it in a legally untenable position. Justice secretary Leila de Lima admitted that Arroyo has been granted asylum papers in the Dominican…
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“The general profiling of people as ‘friend’ or ‘enemy’ on the basis of their tweets and email is definitely dangerous and must be stopped.” – Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star This week in Cannes, France, the Group of 20 biggest economies or G-20 – representing 85 percent of the world’s economy, 80 percent of trade, and two-thirds of population — holds its sixth summit meeting since 2008 to deal with the global financial-economic crisis.…
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The Philippines has a former advertising executive for tourism secretary in Ramon Jimenez. In his TV and other media appearances, Jimenez exudes confidence from every pore as he carries on in his American-accented English about his plans to turn this country into a tourist haven, mostly by…
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld President Benigno Aquino’s “all-out justice” slogan, coined by his tourism secretary (an advertising man before joining government), seems to be catching on. As a tagline, it aims to capture the administration’s purported commitment to peaceful means, i.e. peace negotiations, to resolve the armed conflict with the Moro Islamic Liberation…
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Would the request of a victim’s mother be enough for the police to investigate the alleged involvement of an Army officer in the enforced disappearance of activist Jonas Burgos? This was the question posed by lawyer Ricardo Fernandez, counsel of Jonas’s mother Edita Burgos, to Gen. Samuel Pagdilao,…
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) in Panay lashed out against the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and its attempts to justify the Aquino administration’s release of some P31 million ($720 thousand) to the break-away faction of the RPA-ABB based in Panay and Negros Islands. Bayan-Panay based its criticism…
Critics dare Aquino to turn ‘Mine Safety Week’ into reality
(Text and photos by Marya Salamat)
By MARYA SALAMAT
“With the celebration of Mine Safety Week, the mining industry portrays itself as a socially responsible industry, but in truth it is nothing but a self-serving, destructive and exploitative industry.” – Kakay Tolentino, Dumagat spokeswoman of Katribu Partylist.