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“I have been living with goiter for 23 years. I could not use my PhilHealth card because I have to shell out money first for the laboratory tests before I can undergo an operation. Then I heard about the bonuses. It is really enraging.” – Nida Enedero, PhilHealth member
“The protest action is meant to call on the people to persevere in the fight against the monsters of corruption.” – Artista Kontra Korupsyon
“Migrant workers are particularly vulnerable as they are easily intimidated because of their unfamiliarity with the local place and culture.” Migrante-Alberta
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld A gust of fresh air is sweeping through the centuries-old, grandiose but encrusted and musty environs of Vatican City with the arrival of a new Pope elected just seven months ago. Pope Francis, or the former...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The claim that it’s not Benigno Aquino III who really wants to keep the pork barrel system intact, either by renaming it or by insisting that discretionary funds are not part of it, is straight out of the Marcos...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Coincidental with the cliff-hanging negotiations in Washington, which ended on October 17 with the Obama administration defeating the House of Representatives in their standoff on funding the federal...
“The people should unsheathe and use this power to make laws whenever their elected representatives default in the performance of their sacred duty to enact laws to promote the general interest, or worse, whenever they betray the public trust.” – former chief justice Reynato Puno
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com If journalism is history in a hurry, can we describe social media as the hurrying of history? Because of mobile Internet, events are ‘instantiated’ in our timelines and webpages. We constantly access the Internet not...
"This is good news. I just hope the developments will continue." – Mrs. Edita Burgos, mother of Jonas
By JOANNA K. CARINO Northern Dispatch It is commonplace knowledge that corruption is rampant at all levels of government. The Commission on Audit’s (COA) Special Audit Office’s (SAO) Report 2012-03 details the anomalies involved with the Priority Development...
They were removed from “danger zones” in the city to a relocation site where they face not only the lack in social services and livelihood opportunities but also floods, landslides, and potentially, an earthquake because the relocation site sits near a fault line.
“The houses look good. But we do not have livelihood there. We have electricity and water but we do not have money to pay our bills.” – Purita Dayao
Part Two: From danger zones to a death zone
“The government should stop making alibis and stop using scholars and poor patients to justify the lump sum and discretionary funds like the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). Is cutting the budget for government hospitals now called ‘underspending’ and ‘savings’ generation?” – Alliance of Health Workers
MANILA – Public school teachers stormed the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) head office in Manila on Oct. 19, Friday to protest the granting of P10.448 million ($242,416) in bonuses to its board of directors. The teachers slammed the Governance...
"The DOLE considers child labor as a mere law enforcement problem, monitoring cases of child labor, stopping some operations that employ child labor, and threatening to penalize some employers."– KMU
Dismissing the case against the accused murderers of Juvy Capion and her sons, Pops and John, "was a go-signal for military and paramilitary groups to continue killing civilians opposed to big mines and other destructive projects." – Task Force Justice for Environment Defenders
"We do not want the company to perish. All we want is for the company to hear the issues of their workers." -- Sagada Weaving Workers Union (SWWU)
Ni YANI ELA Bulatlat.com Nakakabingi ang ingay ng mga nag-uumpugang granahe. Pasikot-sikot, paikot-ikot sa taenga. Walang katapusang pumipiga ng pawis, tubo at gutom. Langitngit ng mga nagtatangisang makina. Sa pananahi, pamutol ng lata, panghakot ng semento’t...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star This week two dramatic events, both with worldwide implications, played out in the capitals of the United States and the United Kingdom. In Washington, the issue was how to resolve the standoff between the...
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