By FRANCK DICK ROSETEBulatlat.com CAGAYAN DE ORO — Lawyers of detained journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and lay worker Marielle Domequil maintained that their clients are innocent, disagreeing with the court decision that was only based on testimonies from “rebel returnees” without supporting...
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“Why do we need to remember? We need a remembrance, not to reminisce or romanticize, but look back, to compare, to draw or even to relearn lessons, to identify what went wrong and what went right, to know missed opportunities and even defaults.”
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan assailed the Quezon City’s Department of Public Order and Safety (DPOS) decision to deny their application to hold protest action in Batasan Road in time for Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s first State of the Nation Address.
Progressives reiterated their demands and challenges to Ferdinand Marcos Jr. yesterday, July 16, in a gathering dubbed as the “People’s Summit: Tunay na Pagkakaisa para sa Tunay na Pagbabago.”
Government workers are worried over the reported plans of Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.’s administration to ‘rightsize’ government agencies, saying “ordinary Filipino government workers are the usual victims of this mass layoff.”
“The most productive in our history.” This was how former finance secretary Carlos Dominguez described former President Rodrigo Duterte’s economic legacy. However, official figures on the country’s ballooning debt since 2016 tell a different story.
A farmers group has presented what it said are doable programs for the country’s agriculture sector in the first 100 days in office of the Marcos Jr. administration.
It has been more than a week since Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son, and namesake of the late dictator, was inaugurated. But prospects for peace remain uncertain with the newly-installed administration neither having a peace adviser nor a clear stance on how it will proceed with the peace process.
Bulatlat filed a civil case at the Quezon City Regional Trial Court earlier today, seeking a temporary restraining order (TRO) and the nullification of NTC’s order.
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Ibon Foundation said that the Rice Tariffication Law has never benefited farmers. From P385 billion in 2018 ($7 billion), the value of palay production declined to P333 billion ($6.06 billion) in 2021 despite an increase of 894,076 metric ton in production volume.
Different international organizations expressed their support to human rights group Karapatan officials who are facing perjury cases filed by National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr.