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 Bulanao, Tabuk, Kalinga. Mrs. Claver, 42, expired at around 12:30 pm, despite…
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3 activists killed in 24 Hours
1 missing since July 28 BY BULATLAT Bulatlat.com Three activists were killed in the last 24 hours in the regions of Northern and Central Luzon and Sorsogon province, the three priority areas of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s all-out-war policy. Dr. Chandu Claver,49, Bayan Muna-Kalinga Chapter chair, and his wife, Alice, 42, were ambushed at around 7…
Journalists Bid Farewell to Slain Colleague
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 commentator for DYPR in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan. Batul was shot dead by two motorcycle-riding men at…
Bayan Muna Officer Killed in Laguna
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. Dorris Cuario, secretary general of the human rights group Karapatan…
Palace Lifts State of Emergency
BY BULATLAT Posted 12:05 p.m. March 3, 2006 President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lifted the state of emergency March 3, a week after she declared it supposedly to quash an alleged coup plot. The lifting was made after her advisers assured her that the coup threat had eased. The defense, justice, and police chiefs said on March…
Mamburao 6 Meted Death Sentence
BY BULATLAT Posted 4:30 p.m. March 1, 2006 The six farmers accused of killing brothers Michael and Paul Quintos – sons of a local landlord in Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro – on Dec. 13, 1997 were meted out the death penalty this morning in an 80-page decision by Judge Teresita Yadao of Branch 81, Quezon City…
Inquest of 5 Solons Illegal – Lawyer
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Posted 5:55 p.m. Feb. 28, 2006 The ex parte inquest (inquest without the respondents) proceedings held at the House of Representatives (HOR) around 3:30 p.m. today regarding the rebellion charge filed against five party-list representatives was illegal, Neri Colmenares, general counsel of Bayan Muna (People First) said. Bayan Muna Reps. Satur Ocampo,…
Progressive Solons Defy Arrest
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted 6:50 p.m. Feb. 27, 2006 Four progressive party-list representatives – Satur Ocampo and Teddy Casiño of Bayan Muna (People First), Rafael Mariano of Anakpawis (Toiling Masses), and Liza Maza of Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) who eluded arrest after a press conference of the House Minority bloc February 25 at the…
Ka Bel, Capulong Walk Out of DOJ Inquest
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Posted 6:45 p.m. Feb. 27, 2006 Anakpawis Representative Crispin Beltran and his lawyer, Justice Romeo Capulong, walked out of the inquest proceedings for a new charge of rebellion filed against Beltran at the conference room of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) at noon today. Public Prosecutor Emmanuel Velasco of the…
KMU Leaders Arrested in Attempted Visit to Jailed Solon
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted 6:00 p.m. Feb. 27, 2006 Two leaders of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU or May First Movement) were arrested this morning as they and close to a hundred members of the said labor federation trooped to Camp Crame, the national headquarters of the Philippine National Police (PNP). Arrested were Dennis…
‘Palit-Bigas’ Prostitution
Or how rural women are trading sex for rice due to hunger The Philippines observed World Food Day this year amid an atmosphere of increasing hunger. Amid worsening hunger, a number of women in the rural areas – where food crops are grown – have been turning to what is called palit-bigas prostitution. BY ALEXANDER…