Ronalyn V. Olea or Len to her colleagues loves to brew coffee strong enough to keep everyone in the newsroom awake. She’s a vegan and a bike commuter, braving the chaos of the road to get to meetings and errands.
Ronalyn V. Olea or Len to her colleagues loves to brew coffee strong enough to keep everyone in the newsroom awake. She’s a vegan and a bike commuter, braving the chaos of the road to get to meetings and errands.
Is this the smoking gun that would force the Armed Forces of the Philippines to finally surface Jonas?
“I earnestly pray that this decision would lead us to Jonas and to the names of those involved so that justice may (finally) be served...The ultimate measure of success is our recovery of Jonas.” - Edita Burgos, Jonas’s mother
For two days, more than 200 members of the Manobo tribe under the leadership of Mapasu, along with their supporters from other sectors, trooped to the Tandag City Jail to demand the release of Campos.
Human rights group Karapatan is calling for a transparent and credible process on the selection of members of the Human Rights Victims Claims Board.
“This latest step is just another indication of (the Church’s) refusal to heed the views of a majority of our people. It is sad that the Supreme Court should be instrumental in revoking human rights already claimed by our people under the RH law.” – UP Center for Women's Studies, UP Law Center Institute of Human Rights
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – A coalition of advocates for reproductive health (RH) called on voters to support pro-RH local and national candidates and to shun those against it. Rom Dongeto, executive director of the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on...
“How could we have peace when our government does not care for the poor?” – urban poor leader
The University of the Philippines is mourning.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Golden rice is a genetically-modified organism, meaning it now has a set of genes that never existed in rice… scientific data from independent scientists have reported unintended compositional alterations associated with genetic transformations.” – Dr. Chito Medina, Masipag
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The GPH has deliberately refused to comply with its commitments in agreements forged with the NDFP, despite the full knowledge that compliance would immediately break the impasse and cause the resumption of the formal talks of the GPH and NDFP Negotiating Panels.” – Luis Jalandoni, NDFP
Adoracion Paulino, mother-in-law of missing UP student Sherlyn Cadapan, had a lot of questions when Sherlyn suddenly appeared in her house, being guarded by three women and two men, but Sherlyn did not answer her queries.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We enjoin our faithful to work and persevere in guarding the commitment of the GPH and NDFP to uphold the four substantive issues framed in the Hague Joint Declaration especially the Social and Economic Reforms.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA
After typhoon Pablo struck the province, Gov. Corazon Malanyaon and Lt. Krishnamurti Mortela of the the Army’s 67th Infantry Battalion created the Incident Command Post (ICP). All the relief goods are in the military camp and the command for relief distribution comes from the 67th IB, and residents of Binondo, Cristina Jose’s village, said they only received help once, and instead of ten kilos of rice per household, they were given only five kilos.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The promissory note will make it easier for DAR and the Cojuangco-Aquinos to evict the farm worker-beneficiaries from their land. If the farm workers are unable to pay, their land would be confiscated.” – Jobert Pahilga, lawyer of Ambala
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Just as they arrived back in their community (after the barricade last week), Kagawad Jose and all those who participated in the Kampuhan at the DSWD were harassed by the Barangay Captain and the military from the 67th Infantry Battalion Philippine Army. Supposedly, she was on her way to Davao City after the session to report the cases of human rights violations, but she was brutally killed.” – Karapatan–SMR
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We have waited this long, only to suffer another injustice. By ignoring the need for justice, they have also ignored the life of service that Leonard and his companions had done up to their last breath.” – Mrs. Glenda Co
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Three farm workers of Hacienda Luisita were arrested by policemen, February 28. Yesterday, leaders of Alyansa ng Manggawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala) were holding a dialogue with Provincial Agrarian Reform Office...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Lito Bais, chairman of Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (Uma)maintained that the DAR should have referred to the signatories to the 1989 Stock Distribution Option instead of the list submitted by the HLI management to the high court.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Davao City Chapter (NUJP-Davao) has issued a statement condemning Dela Rosa’s “arrogance and disrespect” towards members of the media. “Such arrogance and disrespect by Dela Rosa towards members of the press is...
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