By KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL Northern Dispatch LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — The La Trinidad accounting office stopped the release of priority development assistance fund (PDAF) allocation of Benguet Representative Ronald Cosalan due to an irregularity. The Department of Budget Management (DBM) records showed that La Trinidad United Multipurpose Cooperative (LUMC) was among the recipients of Cosalan’s PDAF.…
Day: October 7, 2013
Filipino migrants’ rights advocates join high level talks on migration
“Large scale migration is a symptom of underdevelopment in the sending country. The structural causes of underdevelopment driving migration and exposing migrants to vulnerable situations must be addressed.” – Migrante International
On the red-baiting of Bulatlat.com | Same old but dangerous military mindset
This anachronistic, malicious accusation and insinuation of a military officer, a public affairs spokesman at that, reminds us of Cold war-era politics and martial law, 41 years ago, when anyone critical of the Marcos dictatorship was branded as a communist, leftist and subversive, and therefore was subjected to arrest, detention, torture, and worse, enforced disappearance or extrajudicial killing.
US govt shutdown spares military but hurts children and the poor
Rania Khalek: Government shutdown means halting social services while maintaining NSA spying, deportations and continuing drone strikes in Afghanistan
Nationwide ban on herbicide gramoxone sought
By KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL Northern Dispatch LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Benguet officials resolved to petition the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) to ban the herbicide gramoxone (paraquat) in the Philippines following reports of increasing cases of poisoning in the province. During the provincial peace and order council meeting October 3, Benguet Governor Nestor B. Fongwan, local…
The plot thickens
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The Aquino regime’s gross abuse and misuse of public funds through the now discredited and derided pork barrel system is becoming fully unmasked what with the disclosure of how Malacañang has been illegally juggling and misappropriating hundreds of billions of pesos via the Department of Budget and Management-concocted Disbursement…
Obama’s choice
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld With the shutdown of the US federal government, President Barack Obama has cancelled his visits to the Philippines and Malaysia but will still fly to Brunei and Indonesia. What seems to have driven the decision to continue with the Indonesian leg of Obama’s Asian trip is US…
Pork barrel scam agitates OFWs in Europe
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The revelations on the ramifications and grave misuse of the pork-barrel system — the latest of which involves the Disbursement Acceleration Program, concocted by Budget Secretary Florencio Abad Jr. and now being questioned before the Supreme Court — have spurred continuing protest actions nationwide.…