Bayan Muna leaders assailed on Tuesday the plan of the Social Security System (SSS) to delay the implementation of the second tranche of additional P1,000 pension scheduled next year.
The Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Friday said it did not initiate the call for the Commission on Election (Comelec) to suspend the proclamation of winning candidates at the national level.
Two of the men who allegedly tailed the delegation of international lawyers while they were in Manila on March 18. (Photo courtesy of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers) MANILA — Delegates of an international mission that investigated the attacks on Filipino lawyers and the legal profession experienced firsthand how it was to be tailed…
Militant labor denounced Rodrigo Duterte’s decision not to issue an order ending contractualization of workers, saying the President’s move is a complete turnaround from his repeated promise to end the practice. Following labor secretary Silvestre Bello III’s announcement Thursday that Duterte decided to leave it to Congress to decide on labor-only contracting, Kilusang Mayo Uno…
Rosella Yupano, a resident of Barangay Talomo in Davao City, shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote at Apolinario Mabini Elem. School on Monday’s (May 14, 2018) Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections. (More…) Mara S. Genotiva/davaotoday.com)
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The new Anti-Terrorism Act, which takes effect tomorrow, July 19, is being challenged before the Supreme Court by eight petitions so far filed by different groups. It should open an interesting debate, involving not just the activists and the political commentators but more so the general public which has often suffered the disastrous consequences of…