By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Friday last week (Nov. 22) my mother, Cecilia, turned 103 years old. When our large family — 203 as of last count — celebrated with her last Sunday at our farmhouse in Dampul (Barangay Sta. Monica, Sta. Rita,...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld "(A)ng catubusa’y hindi nacucuha sa salita o sa sulat... Sucat na! Papagsalitain natin naman ang sandata!" -- Andres Bonifacio On November 30 the Filipino working class and people mark the 150th birth anniversary...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld "The goodwill the (December 26, 2004) tsunami relief brought the US is incalculable," said Jonah Blank, who’s described as "a senior political scientist" at the conservative US think tank RAND Corp., in the aftermath...
QUESTION EVERYTHING? Mong Palatino? Bulatlat.com 1. The decision to adopt the acronym KKK was a radical act. The letter K was not part of the Tagalog alphabet during the time of Rizal and Bonifacio. Since Filipinos at that time were using the Spanish writing...
"We are frustrated with the slow pace of the trial. It is disheartening that justice lies in the hands of those who are powerful, yet, they are not doing anything about it.” – CEGP-Ilocos Sur
Concerns about the TPP are rising as it lays out a number of provisions that could prove harmful to the citizenry of the countries impacted by the agreement, which make up about 40 percent of the world economy.
A poem in response to Joi Barrios-Leblanc's "Sumpa ng Kawayan" ni E. SAN JUAN, Jr. "....Iniluwa ko na ang galit sa pusong nagpupuyos Nang putulin ang aking binti, ngunit di pa rin nakaligtas Sa sumpa ng marahas na kalagayan-- O Yolanda! Yolanda! Walang kailangan,...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld It's been four years since the Ampatuan Massacre of November 23, 2009, and three years since Benigno Aquino III assumed the Presidency. The hearings on the petitions for bail of 63 persons out of the 108 accused of...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The Supreme Court has acquitted itself by resoundingly, citing clearcut legal arguments, declaring the pork barrel unconstitutional. Voting unanimously (with one abstention), the tribunal thus reversed its...
By JOI BARRIOS-LEBLANC Bulatlat.com Resilience is the curse of the bamboo. Suffer the storm, swim through the floods. Bear the stench of corpses and the hunger that does not go away with praise. Forget the greed that levels mountains and changes wind and...
“If our local government permits this, it is a downright and deliberate attack to our economic right as small-scale miners. "
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...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star A week after supertyphoon “Yolanda” swooshed in and devastated a wide swath of the islands of Samar, Leyte, and Panay (Iloilo, Capiz, and Aklan), one gets this impression from media reports: as swift and...
“The government is so incompetent that it even allowed the conduct of relief, rescue operations to be undertaken by foreign troops.”
'Local municipalities need to take up a “climate adaptation” program in their disaster preparedness...'
Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), the strongest typhoon ever recorded, has wreaked havoc to provinces of Visayas. According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, as of Nov. 10, 6 a.m., 151 individuals were killed, 5 missing and 22 injured. Photos...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld To the disasters that have struck the Philippines this year, the latest being typhoon "Yolanda" (international name: Haiyan), the Philippine media have responded not only with regular, often by-the-hour reports, but...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld "Sandigan ang masa; paglingkuran ang sambayanan." (Rely on the masses; serve the people.) These words of Fr. Jose "Joe" P. Dizon at the celebration of his 40th year as a priest (for the most part assigned to the...
The resources gathered from contributions may serve only a small per cent of 8,000 families still displaced, “But this would not stop us from doing what we can to help the victims and let everyone know the situation of the people in Zamboanga.” ...
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