Complainants of the alleged leakage of the recently conducted nursing board examinations denounced the Professional Regulations Commission’s (PRC) decision to release the results even without digging deeper into the controversy. Even if most of them passed, the...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com Family members of nine missing persons filed a motion for writ of habeas corpus before the Supreme Court this morning. Among the relatives who filed the case were families of missing persons Prudencio Calubid, Rudy and Gabriel Calubad,...
BY JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com Defense lawyers of the so-called ‘Batasan 6’ militant lawmakers today asked a Makati regional trial court to suspend the hearing of rebellion charges against the six, and to first pursue probable cause for the charges. The Batasan 6...
BY JUN VERZOLA NORTHERN DISPATCH Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Dr. Constancio “Chandu” Claver, chairperson of the Kalinga chapter of Bayan Muna was seriously wounded and his wife Alice Omengan Claver killed in an ambush by two gunmen at 6:45 am this morning in...
It’s now mid-2006, and the killings and abductions, as well as the AFP and Malacañang’s lies have yet to stop. BY DEE AYROSO (Bulatlat.com) In March 1989, Honor Ayroso, then a 21-year-old leader of the League of Filipino Students, was abducted. That week, nine...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Posted 11:00 P.M., May 31, 2006 Journalists all over the country and friends from cause-oriented organizations wore black today in various protest activities to bid farewell to slain colleague Fernando “Dong” Batul, a...
Bulatlat.com Posted 8:30 p.m., May 27, 2006 Noli Capulong, secretary general of the party-list group Bayan Muna, was killed near St. John Hospital in Barangay Parian, Calamba town in the province of Laguna (52 km south of Manila) today at around 6 in the evening....
The tricycle is considered one of the most reliable transport vehicles not only in Cabugao, Ilocos Sur (433 kms north of Manila) where this picture was taken, but in most parts of the country. This is because of its capacity to traverse both asphalt and dirt road...
By Flon Faurillo / Bulatlat Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita and the top Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have denied the role of state forces in the killings of political activists, which have continually escalated under the Arroyo regime. Malacañang’s...
We detest the Arroyo government’s rejection of the report of the independent commission investigating the Lafayette mine spills in Rapu-rapu island. Blinded by the glare of mining investments, Arroyo is willing to sell out the environment and patrimony of the...
BY DENNIS ESPADA (Bulatlat.com) The police has filed criminal charges against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s “heckler,” Cavite State University (CvSU) graduate Maria Teresa Pangilinan, even as Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez shelved his plan to sue her and...
(Bulatlat.com) “The government should recognize the fact that there is insurgency because of social injustice and the inequitable distribution of economic resources in the country. It can only be solved by providing the poor long-term economic security,” said...
BY JOHNNY FIALEN Northern Dispatch (Bulatlat.com) Abigail Cabbigat, 32, is a native of Lagawe, Ifugao. She spent two years in Hong Kong and 10 months in Lebanon as a domestic helper. She escaped on February 17 this year from her employer because of grave threats on...
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch (Bulatlat.com) The lawyers of the 11 punks arrested last February in Buguias, this province while on their way to Sagada, Mountain Province may file a case of arbitrary detention against the Philippine National Police (PNP)...
BY JHONG DE LA CRUZ (Bulatlat.com) Signs that Sulu is now on the way to recovery and development are yet to come, with random bombings and killings devastating this war-torn Southern Mindanao archipelago. “Unless the government begins reviewing its security...
BY ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO (Bulatlat.com) Fight back! This was the call of the group National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), one of the country’s biggest groups of journalists, as it lamented government’s “lameduck” effort to curb the killings of...
BY DENNIS ESPADA (Bulatlat.com) “Medyo bagong karanasan pero obligadong matutunan (It is a rather new experience and I’m obliged to learn it).” This was how 34-year-old poet Axel Alejandro Pinpin described his 30-day ordeal under police custody. “Medyo bagong...
BY DEE AYROSO (Bulatlat.com) It’s now mid-2006, and the killings and abductions, as well as the AFP and Malacañang’s lies have yet to stop. In March 1989, Honor Ayroso, then a 21-year-old leader of the League of Filipino Students, was abducted. That week, nine...
BY ANGEL AYALA (Bulatlat.com) In a recently-passed resolution, the Sorsogon provincial board stated that the political killings in the said province have already reached “horrific proportions” and that it has “sent fear” among Sorsogueños, “whose character were...
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