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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 ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Menyer Ligmon’s family budget of $8 a day is spent for one and a half kilos of rice, $0.46 for the snack of each of her six children, who are attending school, $0.46 for one fourth kilo of sugar, $0.46 for kerosene gas for her lamp for one week .. and the rest for noodles and vegetables, cooking oil, salt and the cheapest milk for her two-year old child.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“Aquino’s ninth month in office coincides with the militant action of Filipino women on March 8. Just like giving birth to a child, the protest of women all over the country and overseas would be born after nine months of discontent over an administration found inadequate in action.” -- Lana Linaban, Gabriela secretary-general
Leaders and affiliate unions of the Confederation for Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees (Courage) recently held relief operations to help with victims of the fire that razed the homes of approximately 1,000 families in Barangay Central, Quezon City last week.
My sister and I usually go to the public market at least twice a month to buy vegetables and fish. While I knew that prices of goods have increased, I did not realize how steep the increases had been.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
She became known as the small but firebrand speaker during the protest actions leading to the People Power II uprising that ousted then president Joseph Estrada. Protesters from all walks of life, from the urban poor to well-dressed women from the elite, went near the stage whenever she spoke during rallies.
On February 7, 2011, at around 10:00 p.m., an estimated 5,000 families lost their homes when a fire hit Brgy. Central in Agham Road, Quezon City. The fire lasted until 3:00 a.m. of February 8. The said community was subject to demolition operations in October last year to make way for the Quezon City Business District Project. (Photos by Tudla Productions / bulatlat.com)
An Inauspicious Start to a New Year
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
A new poverty index that reconfigured the method of determining the extent of poverty in the Philippines has been criticized as deceptive and can be exploited by the government to declare that life has become better under the Aquino administration, critics said the other day.
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