They say that education is not limited to the four walls and corners of the classroom, but three elementary schools in Quezon City took that age-old adage further with a real-life lesson in addressing the worsening impacts of climate change. Diosdado P. Macapagal Elementary School (DPMES),...
By Romae Chanice Marquez ON JUNE 13 around 8 p.m., four unidentified armed men barged into the home of community worker Elena Tijamo in Brgy. Kampingganon, Bantayan, Cebu. The abductors, masked and clad in black, reportedly put a tape on Elena’s mouth and tied her...
It was April 26 when more than a hundred repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) awoke to the news that a fellow balikbayan had hung herself in a stairwell in Room 43. They had been housed under the same lodgings for almost a month—twice the mandatory 14-day...
As the easing of movement restrictions begins in some parts of the country, many Filipinos remain unsure about the real extent of the spread of COVID-19, and anxious about the government’s capacity to control it. Has the government used the past two months of a...
Artists, groups join journalists in 'Black Friday Protests' vs. ABS-CBN Shutdown Like the previous Black Friday protests for press freedom that started last year, journalists, artists, and different groups came together to denounce the National Telecommunications...
Veteran journalist Inday Espina-Varona interviews Dr. Gene Nisperos of UP Manila and UP-PGH in the latest episode of ALAB Analysis. The country's COVID-19 cases skyrocketed in a matter of weeks, with the Philippines now among those with the highest number of cases in...
Over a hundred civil society groups from 30 countries came together to urge governments to ensure the rights and welfare of rural communities. The call was made after numerous countries implemented restrictive lockdown measures in a rush to contain COVID-19. In a...
With the Tacloban City Prosecutor’s Office filing charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives against a community journalist and four activists nabbed in simultaneous raids in Tacloban City in the wee hours of February 7, various groups slammed the move...
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology’s lowering of Taal Volcano’s alert status from Alert Level 4 (hazardous eruption imminent) to Alert Level 3 (decreased tendency towards hazardous eruption) over the weekend was supposed to elicit sighs of relief...
“As a health worker, I also want my daughters to become nurses,” shares Eleazar Sobinsky. Eleazar is a nurse attendant at the Lung Center of the Philippines for almost two decades. Throughout those years, he was assigned to different stations in the hospital. Eleazar...
Melvin Cabe, a 35-year-old farmer from San Miguel, Las Navas in Northern Samar, was hunting fowl in the woods for dinner. He was with his stepsons aged 16 and 19 years old. It was nearing eight o'clock in the evening, and they have not eaten yet. Melvin's wife and...
When the sun rose on March 30, policemen who had barged into their house with high-powered firearms at the dead of night told Roy (not his real name) that his father was "okay" in the hospital. These policemen, who wore masks to hide their faces, had dragged him, his...
Angeline dela Karsada was crafting a pouch out of abaca when we arrived exhausted at her hut. Apologizing for the disturbance, we asked if we could use her bench to eat our very late lunch. The light was already slant and golden. On the doorpost, a small, rather faded...