“While the TRAIN law provides higher income tax exemption for those earning below P250,000 ($4,818) annually, it actually levies a higher tax burden to the poor majority with the removal of some VAT (value added tax) exemptions and introduction of new excise taxes on petroleum products and sugar-sweetened beverages.”
“We the undersigned Australian People publicly call on President Rodrigo Duterte and the Bureau of Immigration in the Philippines to rescind its deportation order on Sr Patricia Fox NDS, to restore her Missionary Visa, and to thank her for her 27 years of kind support to the poor of the Philippines.”
By RAYMUND VILLANUEVA
“The patients are increasing but the manpower is not. With this kind of set up, health workers, who are mostly overworked, are vulnerable to mistakes.”
“Ask Maj. General Rhoderick Parayno, head of the 2nd ID-PA-AFP and former chief of PNP-CALABARZON, about who Criste’s handler was, and to whom did Criste’ group submit the monies they collected from their syndicate activities.”
Ni BEN QUILLOY* Libu-libong maliliit na parisukat Sa telang parang banig Na may takdang sukat Isang tusok ng karayom Bawat parisukat Taglay ang tatlong suson Ng sinulid na makulay Pinuputol ng panggupit ng kuko Kapalit ng bawal na gunting Sa liwanag ng ilaw Maghapo’t magdamag na may silaw Sa loob ng maliit na kuwarto Yari…
On May 7-18, the Duterte government will engage in its third Balikatan joint military exercises with the United States since October 2016. The exercises will have two new features: 1) participation of Japan and Australia, both America’s close cohorts in Asia and, 2) the start of construction, inside a Philippine base, of the first of…
Four media-related events occurred within days of each other last week. One was the release by the press freedom watch group Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF — Reporters Without Borders) of a report on the troubled state of press freedom in many countries including the Philippines. RSF ranked the Philippines a low 133rd out of 180…
The bill proposes to provide security of tenure and civil service eligibility to all non-regular employees who are working continuously in any government agency for at least six months.
But, like fear, courage could be contagious. And unlike fear that disempowers, courage built on the power of truth and the unity of all in media is a force that empowers.
“There are more than 20 million contractual workers in the country. Until we see massive regularization, expect more workers to flood the streets in protest.”