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“The K12 aims to produce cheaper, more ‘exploitable’ labor. The program is meant to ensure more ‘semi-skilled’ youths enter the labor force as early as 18 years old, which will make the unemployment problem worse.” – Vencer Crisostomo, Anakbayan
Accused former Air Force Col. Eduardo Kapunan admitted in court that he ordered the surveillance of labor leader Roland Olalia, who was later found brutally murdered with companion Leonor Alay-ay, in 1986.
Complaints of sexual harassment, abuse of authority, working under the influence of liquor, and abusive behavior have been lodged against this consul assigned in Canada, and yet, he is still in service and flaunts his connections?
For public health workers, serving the Filipino people should always be the government’s priority.
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — Anakpawis regional coordinator Michael Cabangon said that as it is, poor workers cannot feed their families due to meager wages and here comes the impending hike on the member's premium contribution to the Social...
By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Angered and disgusted with the recent intrusion of Cordillera Exploration Company Inc. (CEXCI) in their hometown, residents of Tawang village, Balbalan sought help from the office of Cordillera Peoples...
When the unofficial results being tallied by the PPCRV yielded a numerically improbable total, Smartmatic technicians proceeded to change a script of the source code, which, to IT experts, proves that the election results could easily be tampered with.
Instead of releasing partial, unofficial results and providing “trends” based on unreliably tallied votes, the Comelec must order the manual counting of votes.” – Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares
In schools that served as polling centers here, soldiers from the 25th Infantry are observed to have stayed nearer, less than five meters, to be exact.
The most common problems reported are PCOS machine shutdowns and jams, rejected ballots, back-up memory loss and printer malfunctions.
During the 2010 elections, 16-percent of reports to Kontradaya involved PCOS machines; this election, it made up three of every five reports to KontraDaya.
Read also: Machine woes hound first hours of voting in Metro Manila – Kontra Daya
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld THE CANDIDATES for the Senate will be focusing their energies in the coming week on getting the "command votes" of religious and other groups, said reelectionist Senator Gregorio Honasan of the supposedly, but not...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The mystique of technology, especially high tech or cutting-edge technology, as the silver bullet that would slay the monster of the notoriously dirty, violent and fraud-ridden elections in the Philippine setting...
Francis Escudero, more popularly known as Chiz, was a former member of the House of Representative who was elected senator in 2007. He hailed from the province of Sorsogon in Bicol. His late father Salvador Escudero III was also representative of Sorsogon’s first...
Juan Ponce Enrile, Jr., the only son of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, is vying for a seat in the senate. The younger Enrile or Jack who is now on his fourth term (1998-2007, 2010-2013) as representative of the 1st District of Cagayan was among the top...
“I will continue what my father has started.” This is the pledge of the late action king Fernando Poe Jr.’s daughter Grace Poe who is now running for senator as an independent under Team Pnoy. Her campaign advertisement describes her as respectful and kind. Would...
Margarita "Tingting" Cojuangco, aunt of President Benigno Cojuangco Aquino III, is running for the Senate under United Nationalist Alliance. Tingting is the wife of Jose "Peping" Cojuangco Jr., the brother of the late president Corazon Aquino. Tingting is not new...
Pnoy senatorial bet Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel is hoping she would make it to the top 12 this elections. She served as Akbayan Partylist Representative from 2004 to 2010, then ran for senator in 2010 but lost. Among the bills she authored that were passed into laws...
Pnoy team senatorial bet Juan Edgardo "Sonny" M. Angara is one of the youngest candidates running for the Senate this elections. The young Angara, son of incumbent Senator Edgardo J. Angara, served as representative of Aurora's lone district for three terms. Angara...
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