While visiting their dead last Nov. 1, All Saints’ Day, this family in La Loma Cemetery in Quezon City took the opportunity to earn some money by selling pre-paid loads passed from cellphone to cellphone, popularly known as the e-load. The e-load allows one to load a smaller amount of credits but expires more quickly.…
Bulatlat Contributors
Medical Transcription: Antidote to Brain Drain?
Four years after he graduated from a prestigious university here, Mark Dicaleng landed a job in a medical transcription (MT) company. He has only been with the company for a year but he is earning a five-digit income. By Lyn V. Ramo Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.comPosted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY — One need not go abroad…
Killing Dissent
A total of 120 political activists and supporters of progressive party lists and people’s organizations have been killed from January to October 26. For the sake of human rights, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her mean killing machine must be prevented from inflicting more harm on the Filipino people. BY THE Alliance for the Advance of…
Fertilizer Fund Cover-up Feared: Are attempts to hide the truth behind the fertilizer funds now taking place?
Peasant leader Danilo Ramos said some congressmen in Bicol are “fast-tracking” the distribution of fertilizer bags and even cash allegedly to refute claims that no farm inputs were distributed to farmers under the controversial P728-million fertilizer fund of the Department of Agriculture (DA). BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP or Peasant…
The ‘Corporatization’ of the Public Health System
Official statistics show that seven out of every 10 Filipinos die without ever seeing a doctor and that the nearly 75 percent of the population living below poverty line are mainly in rural areas where there is no access to basic services such as health and medical care. Yet the government has allotted a mere…
Japanese religious group condemns RP killings
In its Nov. 4 statement of concern, the National Christian Council in Japan (NCCJ) condemned the spate of “political killings” in the Philippines which has victimized church leaders, trade union leaders, human rights defenders and members of progressive organizations. The NCCJ expressed concern on the alleged participation of the police, military and civilian militias “mobilized…
Dousing the Embers of Hope
Canadian Gov’t Fails to Address Mining Abuses in RP The Canadian government is not taking any drastic action against human rights and environmental abuses of Canadian mining companies abroad, including the Philippines By Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo Ibon Features The chances of getting the Canadian government to act on the proposals of the Parliamentary Standing Committee…
Fertilizer Fund Cover-up Feared
Are attempts to hide the truth behind the fertilizer funds now taking place? Peasant leader Danilo Ramos said some congressmen in Bicol are “fast-tracking” the distribution of fertilizer bags and even cash allegedly to refute claims that no farm inputs were distributed to farmers under the controversial P728-million fertilizer fund of the Department of Agriculture…
Killing Dissent
A total of 120 political activists and supporters of progressive party lists and people’s organizations have been killed from January to October 26. For the sake of human rights, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her mean killing machine must be prevented from inflicting more harm on the Filipino people. BY THE Alliance for the Advance of…
Killings A State Policy
It should be amply evident by now that the killing of Church people, lawyers, members of people’s organizations, and leaders and members of progressive party-list groups is part of a state policy to eliminate dissenters, left-wing personalities involved in the electoral process, and political activists. By the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CENPEG) It…
The ‘Corporatization’ of the Public Health System
Official statistics show that seven out of every 10 Filipinos die without ever seeing a doctor and that the nearly 75 percent of the population living below poverty line are mainly in rural areas where there is no access to basic services such as health and medical care. Yet the government has allotted a mere…