By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com In a big urban poor community in Quezon City, mothers, with children in tow, could be seen lining up at the local health center. Most of the children being brought to the center were not sick. They were there so that the...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com Investigations on the reasons behind the bungling of the police operation in the August 23 hostage-taking incident is ongoing with Justice Sec. Leila de Lima at the helm. The Senate is also undertaking its own inquiry. As of...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com It is shocking how a single hostage-taking incident has shook the country and exposed its problems and vulnerabilities, as well as the ineptness of government and police officials. The late Senior Police Inspector Rolando...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com As the country approaches the first 100 days of the second Aquino administration, unfulfilled campaign promises seem to be piling up. During his campaign for the presidency, the Hacienda Luisita issue haunted Benigno Simeon...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com The Hacienda Luisita agrarian dispute has been hitting the headlines recently. And it is not because the land has been distributed to the farmworkers in fulfillment of the 1957 loan agreement between the Cojuangco family and...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com The recently-released results of the June 25-28 survey of the Social Weather Station (SWS) on the list of issues the Filipino people want the Aquino government to immediately address should provide President Benigno Aquino...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com MANILA -- President Benigno Aquino III was quoted last week complaining that he is not being given a “honeymoon” by the media as criticisms are starting to come his way. The very first executive order of his administration...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com When Fernando Baldomero a Bayan Muna member in Kalibo, Aklan and Jose Daguio a radio broadcaster from Tabuk, Kalinga were killed, we said this should serve as wake up call for Pres. Benigno Aquino III to address other...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com The infamy of the former Arroyo administration did not begin and end with the corruption scandals it was involved in. There were the allegations of cheating during the 2004 elections, which shook the ground it was standing...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com As promised, President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III delivered a short, concise, and simple speech, bereft of lofty ideals, motherhood statements, and quotable quotes. This is consistent with the populist theme not only of the...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com There is nothing much that is happening now. Outgoing president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is supposed to be wrapping things up while incoming president Noynoy Aquino is busy preparing for his inauguration and is in the process...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com The Arroyo government is once again gloating over the 7.3 percent GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth for the 1st quarter of 2010. The National Statistical Coordination Board called it a “glorious ending” for the Arroyo...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The race for the top position in the land has finally ended: Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino was proclaimed on June 9 as the 15th president of the Republic of the Philippines. Sen. Aquino, son of former president Cory Aquino, is...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com It is now only less than a month before Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo leaves Malacañang and the Filipino people could not wait to get it over with. Despite the flak that the Commission on Elections and Smartmatic are getting for bungling...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The faint smile on Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Jose Melo during the evening of May 10 indicated feelings of relief and pride that they were able to push through with the automated elections. A lot of people were...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com I stand corrected. In a previous analysis “Has the Country Achieved a Clean, Honest, and Democratic Elections,” this writer concluded that except for the long queues, election automation was able to fix the voting process in the...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
Election automation was able to fix what is happening inside the precincts, however, it was not able to solve the politics of guns, goons, and gold outside of it.
Automation and computerization are supposed to make life easier. It is supposed to speed up processes by minimizing human intervention. After all, machines are more efficient, more precise, and do not tire easily compared to humans. However, this is not the case with the first Philippine Automated Election System.
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com Poll surveys on the presidential race by Pulse Asia and Social Weather Station have been generating a lot of controversy. This came to a head when Sen. Richard Gordon sued Pulse Asia and the Social Weather Station (SWS) for...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com The country has been holding elections for more than half a century and yet nothing seems to have substantially changed. Local elections are still being fought with guns, goons, and gold while national elections are nothing...
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