By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The study revealed that for every two schools financed through PPP in Alberta, Canada, an additional school could be built for the same cost.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The policies of governments today puzzle me: a willingness to spend billions of dollars on military technologies yet next to none on education; the oppression and silencing of the few educational institutions that are...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Seafarers are joining the nationally-coordinated protests against the Benigno Aquino III presidency on June 23 as Aquino delivers his third state of the nation address (SONA) on the said date at the House of...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The office of a regional office of Bayan Muna party-list in sitio Bukhasan, Cawayan village, Catarman, Northern Samar was reportedly strafed, July 11 at around 10 p.m. by two unidentified men. Youth and student...
by INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com From July 2 to 10, government leaders of the Pacific Rim held the 13th round of negotiations for the previously secret United States-led free trade agreement, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). The...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"The Aquino government is killing poor Filipino women with its failure to deliver the much needed pro-poor and comprehensive health care services to women." – Gabriela
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Political detainee and NDFP consultant Alan Jazmines was transferred in the wee hours of the morning and was not allowed to call his lawyer.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Witnesses said the killers forced Willem Geertman to his knees and shouted invectives at him before pulling the trigger.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño urges his fellow lawmakers to withdraw support from privatization of public hospitals.
By INA ALLCO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- In the midst of their extreme grief, families of slain members of the New People's Army and residents of Brgy. Camflora in San Andres, Quezon in Southern Tagalog are demanding that the Armed Forces of the Philippines...
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO
"The military forces in the area should be immediately investigated as there are several complaints and records of their involvement in human rights violations against anti-mining activists like Geertman.” – Kalikasan-PNE
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Progressive lawmakers have put their foot down against six taxes on tobacco. Lawmakers from Anakpawis and Bayan Muna said the sin tax bill Congress approved on third reading last June 6, 2012 will not benefit local...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas warned that the Philippines risks going through a rice crisis as the Benigno Aquino III administration is set to open the floodgates to bigger amounts of rice imports. June 30...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
After giving a testimony regarding his abduction and torture by the military, the victim, after a few days, disappeared again only to resurface later to file a case against the NPA and a human rights group that assisted him.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Is the Aquino government giving former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo the easy way out? This seems to be the case say lawmakers as the Office of the Ombudsman has yet to act on the non-bailable cases against her. The...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The so-called 'Green economy' will intensify the plunder of the world's remaining natural wealth and the privatization of critical services, technologies and products through Public-Private Partnerships and similar market-driven mechanisms." – Frances Quimpo, Kaliakasan Partylist
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- It's a sure sign that national elections are just around the corner: the Benigno Aquino III government is calling for a P6-billion ($139.5-m).increase in the budget for the controversial conditional cash transfer...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- An agriculturist from the environmental political party Kalikasan Partylist is calling on the Benigno Aquino III government to address what she said was the problem of massive coconut scale infestation in Southern...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"Essentially this bill is a disguised privatization scheme to further let go of the government’s responsibility for health care. It is meant to facilitate private-public partnerships and is thus one step closer to the full privatization of our hospitals." – Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- A week into the 2012-2013 school year, problems are still erupting left and right in the country's public school system because of the implementation of the K+12 program. Mercedita Rillo, 31, has recently enrolled...
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