By MARYA SALAMAT
Government agencies such as the MMDA (Metro Manila Development Authority) belittled the day of protest but President Benigno Simeon Aquino III signed and announced that day a previously pending executive order that would give discounts and subsidies to public utility vehicles.
| Sidebar: Government Tried to Quell People’s Protest Vs Oil Overpricing
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA –The March 31 nationwide People’s Protests against oil overpricing pushed through as scheduled last Friday, despite government efforts to quell the protests through threats of franchise cancellations and possible use of police force, as well as through misrepresentation of the nationwide protests as a “transport strike”, which was duly reported…
By LYN RAMO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY — A university-based research institution is about to introduce etag, a Cordillera preserved pork, in commercial scale. They would infuse it with value-adding interventions to ensure food safety, quality and high market acceptability for the native delicacy. Launched in a recent press conference at the Benguet State University (BSU),…
News Statement March 11, 2011 The unremitting campaign of the Wisconsin State legislature to illegally railroad the wildly unpopular budget bill proposed by Governor Scott Walker is being confronted head-on by a wave of people’s upsurge across the Midwestern United States led by workers. These are workers who are simply fed up and have lost…
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – A political prisoner criticized the Aquino administration’s new counterinsurgency program, describing it as a “sugarcoated bullet.” Randy Felix Malayao, a consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), said that legal offensives against critics and activists continue to be part of the new administration’s counterinsurgency strategy.…
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
We should not allow our people to mourn over and over again for the loss of lives of our fellow Filipinos here and overseas. For the best way to render justice to Ordinario, Credo and Batain is not to allow such injustices anymore.” – Hustisya
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Even as rank and file government employees get migraines trying to find means to stretch their salaries to cover their families’ basic needs, executives of the Government Social Insurance Service (GSIS) are said to have pocketed millions from the pension fund. The national labor center of government employees Confederation…
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“This is an issue of life and death for us, we will not be discouraged or ever dissuaded into giving up.”
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — As slain urban poor leader Antonio “Nono” Homo was laid to rest on Tuesday, his kin and comrades vowed to continue fighting and asserting their right to decent housing and social services to make sure that he did not die in vain. “We are demanding for justice…
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
When violence erupted when residents of Sito San Roque, near Trinoma mall, resisted attempts by the National Housing Authority to demolish their homes, President Benigno Aquino III ordered a stay in the demolition. But for the residents, the fight is not yet over as tensions flare up once in while.
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis March 30 is a sad day for Filipinos. Three overseas Filipino workers Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, Ramon Credo and Elizabeth Batain were executed after being caught by Chinese immigration authorities and subsequently sentenced to death for carrying heroin into China. Even before the execution, one could already feel the somber mood of the…