In his website, Jejomar Binay claims that he was “not born into wealth and political prestige, nor did he taste the privileges accorded to the scions of the rich and powerful.”
Jejomar Binay | Man for the masses or just another ‘trapo’?
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It’s all a matter of self-interest
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective Vice President Jejomar Binay was right when he called the Aquino administration as callous and incompetent. How would one call an administration that refuses to raise the salaries and wages of rank and file workers and employees while allowing the prices and rates of basic services, utilities and commodities to…
Binay and Aquino: The ties that bind
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld So keenly anticipated by much of the media, the “break” between Vice-President Jejomar Binay and President Benigno Aquino III has not come to pass. On the contrary. Despite the attempts of the usual Binay opponents to downplay the subject (they didn’t talk about politics), the supposed awkwardness…
Binay in the best of both worlds
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Because he thinks his current problems are at least partly the doing of some Aquino administration personalities, among them his putative rival in 2016, Manuel Roxas II, Vice-President Jejomar Binay has criticized the administration of which he’s a part — in which he in fact occupies two…
Understanding (and not just exposing) corruption
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld There might very well be a conspiracy afoot to prevent the election of Vice-President Jejomar Binay to the Presidency in 2016. It doesn’t release Binay from the responsibility of credibly answering the accusations that have been hurled against him. But neither should it prevent the media from…
Aquino and company’s real ‘bosses’
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld His numbers may be falling and those of one of his putative opponents rising, but Jejomar Binay is at this point still the leading candidate for the Presidency in 2016. Binay still topped the list of preferred presidential candidates in a Sept. 8 Pulse Asia survey despite…
Youth solon pushes probe of Makati building contractors’ other govt projects
The contractor that built the allegedly overpriced Makati parking building has also figured in a number of government infrastructure projects, including a pet project of Senate President Drilon: the Iloilo Convention Center.
Looking for the government
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Vice-President Jejomar Binay is right. This is not the time for finger-pointing — at least not yet. The people of the provinces that have been devastated by typhoon Yolanda have to be helped, and helped quickly. As soon as the situation stabilizes, however, blaming whoever contributed to…
World Bank funds project to address housing crisis as demolitions continue
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“The government has no right to call Filipinos squatters in their own country. It has the responsibility to provide its citizens with decent social housing and ensure that they have access to social services.” – Kadamay
Migrant groups in Europe call for protection for Filipino au pairs
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Migrant organizations and advocacy groups supporting migrant rights are appealing to Vice-President Jejomar Binay to address the needs of Filipino au pairs in Europe. They also said the vice president was seriously mistaken if he believes that au pairs are overseas Filipino workers employed as household helpers. Last week,…
Relocated to Montalban, former residents of Laperal compound in Makati face an uncertain future
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“We are not garbage, and we don’t want to be reduced to a life of begging. What we want is to have our homes, our lives and our dignity restored.”