BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat January 29, 2008 - 3:11pm Bayan Muna (People First) representatives filed today House Bill No. 3442 seeking the exemption of oil from the 12-percent restructured value-added tax (RVAT). "We have set into motion the process of removing the...
It’s just like a scene in a cartoon where the characters stumble on one another in a comic display of ineptness. After bungling the handling of the investigation of the Glorietta 2 explosion, and the siege of the Manila Peninsula during the Trillanes-Lim standoff,...
Glossed over in the frenzy to see who the leading presidentiables are is what political agenda they are bringing into this race for power, what they stand for with regard to issues most urgent to the people, and who the probable major beneficiaries are from their...
Whatever be the final judgment on Cardinal Sin’s controversial intervention in the political arena, the fact is the bishops cannot isolate themselves from what is going on and cannot continue to remain silent, wittingly or unwittingly serving as props to a regime...
A Columban priest who stole headlines in local and international media in the 1970s and 1980s for his staunch defense of the poor especially the sugar workers said that the social, economic and political conditions of Negros today remain substantially the same. By...
The Lakbayan gave us renewed strength to continue on fighting for our land in the knowledge that we are not alone in the struggle and in fact, one with the majority of the people,” said Zaldy Alfiler, a farmer from Ilocos and secretary general of Solidarity of...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) issued an order Monday assuming jurisdiction for compulsory arbitration over the labor conflict between the University of the Cordilleras’ (UC) employees’ union and the management. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern...
Its doors' being open to as many Filipinos as possible is a major factor in its lead as an educational institution. But there's also the fact that as a state university, UP's educating the poor would seem to be a considerable part of its mandate. BY LUIS V. TEODORO...
NDFP chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison’s listing as a “foreign terrorist” in 2002 brought about the suspension of his benefits and pension, and restrictions on his right to travel. “But I turn a bad thing into a good thing,” he said. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN...
Hindi man katanggap-tanggap ang klase ng pagmamanehong maaaring makaabala o makadisgrasya sa iba, kailangan ding isaisip ang panlipunang kalagayang nagtutulak sa mga drayber na gawin ang sa tingin nila’y nararapat para lang kumita. Sa madaling salita, may konteksto...
Medical tourism is but one form of globalization of health care – foreign doctors, foreign owned hospitals and medical facilities catering to foreign clients: a sell-out of the country’s health care system to foreign big business that spells government abandonment...
Call centers and overseas Filipino workers, both lauded by the Arroyo government as economic winners, are seen to be the worst hit by an anticipated U.S. recession and general slowdown in the world economy. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 50,...
Removing the VAT on oil would stimulate economic activity through savings to consumers on their fuel bills. It is estimated that without the 12 percent VAT, oil pump prices would go down by P4 ($0.098 at an exchange rate of $1=P 40.80) per liter and LPG by P60...
(Komunikasyon Mula Sa Pusod ng Imperyo) NI E. SAN JUAN, JR.* Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 50, January 27-February 2, 2008 Mula kay Ka Alegria, pasalubong ang cancion ng sosyalistang pakikibaka sa Venezuela, kalugod-lugod na balitang ipinaabot mo bilang...
Notwithstanding CARP’s goal of land redistribution, full land ownership has continued to decline, owing to the intensification of tenancy and lease arrangements. BY ALAYSA TAGUMPAY E. ESCANDOR Philippine Collegian Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 50, January...
Madalas itong mangyari at mabasa, at kakatwa, sa pagkapangulo ni Gloria Macapal-Arroyo ito nagaganap. Maraming bilang ng mamamayan sa Metro Manila ay umaakyat ng billboard. May prinoproblema sila, kinakayang umakyat mag-isa sa billboard na sinasampayan ng higanteng...
Sen. Manuel "Mar" Roxas III said that suspending the Value-Added Tax on oil products will give relief to the poor at the forum "People's Response to the Rising Oil Prices," Jan. 26, at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. BY EMILY VITAL...
Asserting that the repeal of the controversial oil deregulation law is a long and complicated process, Liberal Party’s top presidential contender and incumbent Sen. Mar Roxas over the weekend instead proposed Senate Bill No. 1962 suspending the 12-percent...
BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat MIGRANT WATCH Vol. VII, No. 50, Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 2008 Middle East-based migrant groups, led by Migrante Middle-East Regional Coordinator, Migrante-Jeddah chairperson, Migrante-Dubai spokesperson, and the Kapatiran sa Gitnang Silangang...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat January 21, 2008 - 3:58pm The Dutch prosecutor recently announced that the preliminary investigation of the case against Jose Maria Sison will be extended until the middle of the year. Dutch Prosecutor J.S. de Vries' claimed that the...
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