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‘Wake-Up Call’ for Abusive Mining Companies in the Philippines

‘Wake-Up Call’ for Abusive Mining Companies in the Philippines

Abuses by mining companies are not new in the Philippines. Destructive mining have, for decades and in tandem with wanton logging and the equally destructive building of dams, destroyed and poisoned whole communities. Mining companies have been shortchanging these communities. Worse, these firms have been using the police, the military and paramilitary units as their security guards, leading to human-rights abuses such as those suffered by the Ifugaos in Nueva Vizcaya.

| Jan 23, 2011

News in Pictures: Accidents Will Not Justify MRT-LRT Fare Hike, Says Labor Group

News in Pictures: Accidents Will Not Justify MRT-LRT Fare Hike, Says Labor Group


MANILA -- Amid intensifying calls againsts the impending 56% fare increase in the train systems, the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) criticized the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) management and Malacañang for using the consecutive accidents at the MRT to justify the proposed hikes, calling it an act of desperation and heartlessness. (Photo by Janess Ann J. Ellao / bulatlat.com)

| Jan 23, 2011

Next Agenda in GPH-NDFP Talks Can Make or Break Peace Process

Next Agenda in GPH-NDFP Talks Can Make or Break Peace Process

By RONALYN V. OLEA
Forging the Comprehensive Agreement on Socio-Economic Reforms (Caser) is said to be the “meat” of the negotiations as it aims to resolve the root causes of poverty and lack of development in the Philippines.

Related Stories: Philippines Eyes Peace Pact with Reds in 3 Years as Talks Resume | Reporter’s Notebook: Covering the Peace Talks in Oslo | Caser Negotiations Will Be Tougher -- Jalandoni

| Jan 22, 2011

News in Pictures: Dismissed LRT Employees Stage Protest Against Government ‘Double Standard’

News in Pictures: Dismissed LRT Employees Stage Protest Against Government ‘Double Standard’


MANILA -- LRT employees who were dismissed from work for having launched a crippling strike nearly a decade ago joined the RILES Network in condemning the “continued injustice and poverty in the supposedly righteous path of the Aquino government.” The workers protested in front of the offices of the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) Tuesday -- with some of them getting their heads shaved -- a few hours before a scheduled consultation with DOTC’s assistant secretary for administrative and legal affairs Raquel Desiderio. (Photo by Marya Salamat / bulatlat.com)

| Jan 19, 2011

Apart from ‘Shocking’ 300% Toll-Fee Hike, Philippines Has to Account for Dramatic Jump in SLEX Project Cost

Apart from ‘Shocking’ 300% Toll-Fee Hike, Philippines Has to Account for Dramatic Jump in SLEX Project Cost

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
From an initial P4 billion in 2006, the cost of expanding and improving the South Luzon Expressway jumped dramatically to P12.5 billion by last year. This is being used to justify the increase in toll fees – an imposition that many view as not only patently anti-poor but the result as well of “evident corruption.”

Sidebar: Aquino Disappoints on Toll Hike but That’s Not a Surprise

Click here for more stories on the toll-fee increases

| Jan 13, 2011

Critics Condemn the TRB’s ‘Lies, Treachery and Betrayal’ in Hastily Approving 300% Toll-Fee Hikes

Critics Condemn the TRB’s ‘Lies, Treachery and Betrayal’ in Hastily Approving 300% Toll-Fee Hikes

By MARYA SALAMAT
"The TRB cannot even tell us how the toll rates were computed. What was the basis for the computation of the toll rates? These questions must be answered first before they raise the toll fees,” said Northern Samar governor Paul Daza, co-convenor of the TUTOL-SLEX.

| Dec 18, 2010

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