Controversy has greeted Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez’s successive orders – cancelling the contracts/permits of 23 mining firms in operation (out of 41), suspending five others for six months, and cancelling the contracts on 75 projects that have not yet begun. She issued the orders after a month-long audit of the…
Day: February 19, 2017
Promoting impunity
The campaign by President Rodrigo Duterte and his allies in Congress for the restoration of the death penalty is replete with irony. Capital punishment is supposed to discourage criminality while at the same time insuring that those who commit certain crimes get what they deserve. But what’s likely is that rather than deter crime and…
Babae, Hawak mo ang Kalahati ng Kalangitan
Ni KRISELLE CARTALLA Babae ka. Pero hindi lang isang ordinaryong babae. Isa ka ring manunulat, makata, mangingibig at madirigma. Sumusulat ka hindi lang para sa mag-ingay Dahil sa bawat paglathala mo’y kalakip nito ang mga kwento at sanaysay mong may saysay. Tumutula ka hindi lang para magpasikat Dahil ang boses mo ang iyong puhunan sa…
OFWs in HK bewail double charging, lack of foresight by consul, PH labor office
“We urge you to provide genuine service to our sector and stop taking advantage of the Immigration Department’s new policy to make money from OFWs.”