Month: September 2018

Immigration has pre-judged deportation case vs. Aussie nun, Justice department told

“In a supposedly civilized country that respects and promotes human rights and the well-being of its people, no amount of rationalization could justify such an order.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Australian missionary nun Sr. Patricia Anne Fox has asked the Department of Justice to reverse the earlier decision of the Bureau…

Tariffication not answer to rice supply, price ills

Given our abundant arable lands and rich natural resources, we could grow enough of our own food, export those raw or processed products that we are unable to consume, and build an industrial economy. But the Philippine state’s inexcusable failure to develop our agriculture, over the decades, has instead kept us mired in periodic crises…