‘Lawmakers, people like me should follow Ka Bel’s example’ – Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim (Photo by Marya Salamat / Bulatlat.com)
‘Lawmakers, people like me should follow Ka Bel’s example’ – Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim
Day: January 8, 2013
Release of P140 million pork barrel fund for Akbayan representative slammed
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Last year the currently incumbent partylist Akbayan came under fire from critics. With Akbayan leaders enjoying key appointive positions in the Aquino cabinet and its partylist receiving or taking care of millions of government funds, questions are lodged over whether it was indeed “marginalized.” Despite this, Akbayan leaders continue…
The costs of the Aquino government’s K to 12 program
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Being touted as the main education reform program of the Aquino government, the K to 12 program is already in its second phase of implementation. How did it impact on the country’s deteriorating public school system? Last June 2012, the Department of Education implemented the first phase…
Now you see them, now you don’t, but G.I. Joes are here to stay, no thanks to the Aquino government
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Tensions at the West Philippine Sea have been hitting the headlines since last year. President Benigno Aquino III has been blowing hot and cold over the issue: at times saber-rattling, begging the US to deploy more troops and ‘defend the Philippines against China,’ then calling for diplomatic measures to…