Aside from the fact that the biggest chunk was not used specifically for the COVID-19 response, it is the taxpayers who will suffer the most in paying off these debts.
Day: March 19, 2021
Public health care gets pittance from huge COVID-19 loans
“We are puzzled. Where did the huge amount of debts go? There is no transparency how the Bayanihan 1 and 2 funds had been spent.”
Despite COVID-19 loans, aid for the poor insignificant
“Such huge debts but we never got even five kilos of rice. And we will be the ones to pay those debts through our taxes. My grand-grand children might end up paying for those.”
PH records all-time high of 7k new COVID-19 cases
The Philippines has recorded an all-time highest tally – 7,103 new COVID-19 cases – today, March 19.
Maliit na bagay? | Health workers’ lives not a small thing
A year since the world’s longest and strictest lockdown was imposed, health workers here in the Philippines are still dying due to the dreaded virus – the latest is a unionist in a government hospital.
Southern Tagalog braces for ‘second wave’ of arrests following Bloody Sunday
“How can [the judiciary] distance themselves [from the police action] if they themselves signed the documents used to make the operations seem legitimate?” – Defend Southern Tagalog
There’s just one big flaw in your argument
By DEE AYROSO