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“Maaasahan [ang Korte Suprema] na gagawa ng lahat ng kayang gawin upang ang social justice na isang mandato ng ating Saligang Batas ay magkaroon ng saysay sa ating mga kababayan.” Chief Justice Reynato Puno BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat Volume VIII, Number 30, August...
BY BULATLAT NEW YORK -- A local group here advocating human rights in the Philippines has expressed outrage at retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan, Jr.'s impending entry into the Philippine House of Representatives this week. The New York Committee for Human...
BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat Left-leaning groups vowed to block retired Major General Jovito Palparan Jr.’s proclamation as partylist representative. In light of the Supreme Court ruling on April 21 adding 32 additional partylist representatives in Congress, Bantay...
BY BULATLAT A group of teachers praised several legislators for continuing to push for a P9,000 or (US$185.99) salary increase for public school teachers. Antonio Tinio, national chairman of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) commended lawmakers Luz Ilagan,...
Victorious Kowloon Workers End Strike
BY CHARMAINE P. LIRIO AND ANNA KRISTINA P. VIRTUSIO Bulatlat Media organizations are not giving up their fight against the right of reply bills, despite failing to get a clear response from House Speaker Prospero Nograles today. After a closed-door dialogue at the...
Left Forms 'Makabayan' Coalition
Filipino Artists Wage War Vs. VFA
Spearfishing (Diadi, Nueva Vizacaya). Little boys spearfishing for little fishes with little success. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva / Bulatlat.com )
Is it dead, or is it not? Considering the desperation of the Arroyo regime, the threat of Charter change will always be there for as long as the various resolutions filed in the House of Representatives are not withdrawn.BY Flon Faurillo/bulatlat.com
It was only a few years ago when the Arroyo administration issued a total deployment ban to Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar and Iraq because of “unstable security conditions”. Fast-forward to the present. The Arroyo administration has now lifted the deployment ban...
The family, clan, colleagues, as well as friends of missing Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) member James Moy Balao held a photo exhibit and information drive on enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings at the public market of La Trinidad, Benguet on...
Through the reintegration program of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), a National Livelihood Support Fund was launched to “assist” overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were retrenched due to the global financial crisis. But retrenched OFWs have to...
When Bulatlat last visited Arnold Redondo, which was early last February, he still had his job as a production operator at Eighttech Manufacturing Corporation, one of the companies operating at the Cavite Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) which is the largest...
Alan Codizar’s family noticed the smell after two months inside their house in Catalunan Grande, a village about five kilometers from downtown Davao. “We thought it was the dog,” recalled Codizar’s wife Lourdes, “So, we moved the doghouse somewhere else but still...
Bolivian President Evo Morales just completed a five-day hunger strike to push through legislation that allows him to run again in general elections this December. And at this weekend's Summit of the Americas, US President Barack Obama will meet with Latin American...
Mankayan town officials are readying a damage suit against Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company for dumping asbestos-containing materials in Barangay (village) Sapid. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributor Bulatlat MANKAYAN, Benguet (348 kms north of Manila) – Mankayan town...
The Washington-based group the Haiti Priorities Project recently dispatched a team of 70 pollsters throughout Haiti. According to their findings, “Only 5 percent of potential voters nationwide say they are ready to go to the polls in order to elect 12 senators for...
Inspired and challenged by the increasing coverage of the plight of Filipinos overseas in the various media and the accessibility of various film equipment, a group of Filipino migrants in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam recently underwent a first-of-its-kind...
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