Despite thousands of cases filed with the Ombudsman and a lesser number elevated to the Sandiganbayan (anti-graft court) in 27 years, only two governors, one vice-governor, 23 mayors and one vice mayor or a total of 27 high-ranking elective officials were found...
It’s the storm of protests against ASEAN and Con-Ass and not Typhoon Seniang that led to the postponement of the summit, cause-oriented groups in Cebu say. By Emily Vital Bulatlat CEBU CITY – Organizers of counter-ASEAN conferences here believe that the real reason...
Congress should not waste time locked up on the contentious proposal for a Con-Ass as there are more pressing issues that should be addressed, an activist congressman says. By Bulatlat Rep. Crispin Beltran of Anakpawis (toiling masses) party-list called Dec. 9 the...
For couple Librado and Martina Gallardo of Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, the torture and the threats inflicted on them by soldiers of the 48th Infantry Battalion were so brutal they chose to commit suicide. Even the dead couple’s son, Jason, was beaten so bad for...
Retrieving the dead to give them decent burial has become extra painful for families, especially if one is an armed dissident in Quezon, a province now battered by escalated combat operations by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against the communist-led...
Our country is in dire need of doctors for the people. The starkest indicator of this dilemma is the state of community medicine practice in the country and likewise the dwindling number of community physicians. BY PHILIP PARAAN Bulatlat.com Our country is in dire...
Donning white blazers, many doctors stay in air-conditioned clinics serving well-off patients. Some work abroad for higher financial rewards. There are even those who trade their blazers for nurse’s uniforms just to be able to seek employment abroad and bring their...
Filipinos comprise Hong Kong’s biggest migrant community. Migrant workers among them stay on for years to work hard for their children’s future; others come home after a short stay as their dreams of buying a piece of land in their country of origin are shattered....
The family and friends of desaparecido Leopoldo Ancheta remembers him as a loving father, husband, brother, and a dedicated activist. As they marked his 59th birthday – also the 158th day of his disappearance –they voiced out their call to government abductors to...
A senator says patriotism is dying in the country because of the decline in the number of ROTC reservists. He and a House member have filed bills reviving ROTC as mandatory to college students. Student groups are once again in uproar saying that all that ROTC does...
Around 849,000 individuals face eviction due to the privatization of the Manila North Harbor, the urban poor organization Kadamay said. Yet, the port modernization project’s Terms of Reference is silent on relocation plans for the soon-to-be evicted families. BY...
Two environmental groups in the Philippines have raised the alarm on what they described as “impending disasters” in the aftermath of supertyphoon “Reming,” which hit the archipelago – particularly the southern part of its biggest island Luzon – over the weekend....
BY Bulatlat.com Posted 2:45 p.m., Dec. 4, 2006 After more than a year of Nicole’s ordeal, Judge Benjamin Pozon of Branch 139 of the Makati Regional Trial Court found Lance Corporal Daniel Smith guilty of raping Nicole; sentenced him to reclusion perpetua; and...
BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Posted 8:05 p.m., Dec. 4, 2006 Just after the promulgation of the decision on the controversial Subic rape case, residents were waiting outside the Makati City Jail where Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith was supposed to be temporarily...
Philippine environmentalists will bring the controversial Lafayette mining project to international forums and ask foreign investors to withdraw as the operation violates environmental standards and local community rights. Bulatlat.com Environmental activists...
Why is it that despite having high levels of education among Filipino immigrants, most of them end up in lower-paying jobs, resulting in an average income lower than that of most Canadian immigrants? Bulatlat.com Why is it that despite high levels of education...
The Canadian ambassador has asked President Arroyo to listen to international appeals for a stop to the political killings in the Philippines, reminding her that his country’s aid is tied to “good governance.” Bulatlat.com Expressing concern over the reported spate...
Anti-imperialist groups in the Philippines will mount an archipelago-wide caravan dubbed “Voyagers for Peace” in time for the 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in December. BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com Anti-imperialist groups in the...
A Mindanao-based group of nuns has condemned the Oct. 31 Philippine National Police (PNP) raids and searches of the convents of the Contemplatives Good Shepherd (CGS) and the Missionary Sisters of Mary (MSM) in Butuan City as an “attack on the church and the...
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