Caraga police has announced late this afternoon that they arrested Renalyn Tejero.
Missing Lumad human rights worker turns up under arrest in Butuan City
Year: 2021
Balik-Tanaw | We’re human, too
As I read the Gospel this Sunday, I remember a song from our theatre play production in 2014 about the struggles of the indigenous people in the defense of their ancestral domain.
‘Inhumane’ | Group raises alarm on worsening health of detained Lumad student, chieftain
Detained Grade 10 student Esmelito Oribawan and Datu Benito Bay-ao have fallen ill in jail.
Lumad human rights worker abducted in Cagayan de Oro
Renalyn Tejero was abducted by suspected police at 5 A.M. today, March 21.
#DutertePalpak: PH worst in Southeast Asia in COVID-19 response amid surge in new cases
But what is even more alarming for Filipinos is that amid the surge in new COVID-19 cases, the response of the Duterte government to the pandemic more than a year into the crisis remains grossly inadequate and incompetent. While implementing the strictest and longest lockdown in the region, the Philippines continues to lag behind our neighbors in Southeast Asia in actually responding to the pandemic.
Vaccine vacuity
As the number of cases surged enough to put the Philippines ahead of other countries in Southeast Asia; as millions of workers lost their jobs; as schools and businesses ceased operations and even closed permanently; and as the economy spiraled into a recession, apparently at a loss over what to do, Mr. Duterte on a number of occasions declared that only a vaccine could stop the pandemic.
SC pressed to protect people’s rights, freedoms
Amid the national outrage and international concern raised over the March 7 “Bloody Sunday” killing of nine activists in the Southern Tagalog region, urgent calls are being addressed to the Supreme Court to do what it can, while it can, to protect the people’s constitutional rights.
Majority of COVID-19 loans not used for pandemic response
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.
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.