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By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com ILOCOS SUR -- With the theme “Today’s Youth, Tomorrow’s Leaders”, the 2012 Ilocos Youth Summit was able to gather more than 200 youth and students in the region last August 25 at the Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College (ISPSC) in Sta....
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Altamina Exploration Resources Inc.’s six exploration permits were converted to a Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement, providing it with an assurance that it could recover its capital outlay in five years.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- During the first year commemoration of the violent demolition of homes in Corazon de Jesus, San Juan last January 23, Mark Louie Aquino, 26, spokesperson and second nominee of Kabataan Parylist, received the loudest...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
"Prohibiting such activities, and branding it as “seditious,” goes against the core principles of democracy, transparency and accountability which are central in Aquino’s vision of a straight path and contrary to the call of the Aquino administration for active public participation in the governance of our country." – UP President Alfredo Pascual
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Main story: Approved 2012 budget skewed vs peoples’ needs MANILA -- Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raymond “Mong” Palatino criticized the Congress-ratified 2012 national budget of P1.816 trillion ($41.61 billion) as “unhealthy and ignorant”...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and Kabataan Partylist aid poor government spending on higher education is probably behind the drop in rankings of the top universities in the county. "This may come as a...
By CHRISTIAN RAY BUENDIA
“The fight for our right to free speech does not end with the release of the Calamba 7. These brave and selfless activists should never have been arrested and detained in the first place if the Aquino administration truly values the freedom of expression fought and died for by Filipino martyrs four decades ago.” – Kabataan Party-list
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond Palatino said there is an urgent need to control tuition and other fee increases and to promote the practice of democratic participation in the decision-making process.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The only partylist group representing the youth and students sector in Congress wants graduates-to-be and their parents to be spared from paying for college rings, graduation balls and yearbooks. Simplicity, it said,...
NEWS RELEASE February 2, 2011 In light of the House hearing yesterday on the plea bargain deal between former military comptroller Carlos Garcia and Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, Raymond ‘Mong’ Palatino of Kabataan Party-list today hit the military anew by...
By MARYA SALAMAT
While providing a lot of support to Business Process Outsourcing Companies, the government is ignoring the oppressive working conditions of call center employees.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Filipino students could hardly finish up to sixth grade. How much more with K+12?" – Kabataan Party-list.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 16, 2010 Kabataan Partylist Raymond Palatino today called on President Benigno Aquino III to make good his word that he will allot six percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) to education. ?"This coming State of the Nation Address...
On the eve of election day, Southern Tagalog regional poll-watchdog Kontra Daya, Kontra Karahasan received reports of election-related violence against militant groups in the region. In Los Baños, Laguna, at around 12:30 mn, 3 members of Kabataan Partylist, a member of Bayan Muna Partylist and Barangay Human Rights Officer Virgilio Tandang were arrested and physically injured by alleged Makati police officers while in a mass-action of residents against the alleged vote-buying and flying-voter scheme of a mayoral candidate.
Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond “Mong” Palatino expressed opposition to proposals to postpone the May 10, 2010 elections saying that “however which way you look at it, it would only serve to perpetuate the present administration into power”.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
As the elections are drawing near, threats against nominees of progressive party-list groups such as Kabataan are intensifying.
BY ANDREA ZARAH DAYAO, ANNE EDNALYN DELA CRUZ and CIELO EUNICE FLORES
Little is known about what party-list groups represent and what they have done since party-list elections were first held in 1998.
By ANNE EDNALYN DELA CRUZ
The College Editors Guild of the Philippines endorses Makabayan senatoriables Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza, who they believe, will uphold rights of journalists and the youth. Kabataan Rep. Raymond Palatino intends to amend the Campus Journalism Act of 1991.
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