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The Department of Health (DOH) Beat COVID-19 Philippine Situationer with data as of August 16 recorded 83 new COVID-19 cases in a day among health workers, bringing the total to 6,089. The DOH also tagged 549 recoveries in the second batch of ‘mass recovery’ applied on August 16, bringing the total recoveries to 5,615. The Health agency reported…
Environmental activist group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment and indigenous people’s alliance Sandugo gathered at the House of Representatives earlier to protest the 23-year-old Mining Act and the proposed Charter change (Cha-cha) of the Duterte administration. The groups argued that the act has policy deficiencies, part of the reason why former environment secretary Gina Lopez…
“DepEd Sec. Leonor Briones’ pep talk on fighting fears and teaching our students courage does not assuage our apprehensions as they are based on our rational assessment of the country’s present condition.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – The broadest group of public school teachers in the Philippines called on the Department of…
Truck of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division at Kasiglahan Village, Rodriguez, Rizal. (Photo courtesy of Defend-Rizal) The local organization was able to confirm that a certain Harold Diaz had links to NTF-ELCAC when another suspected agent of the task-force went to the SIKKAD K3 office to invite him to the Barangay San Jose Annex building….
The country’s readiness to open schools this August vis-à-vis the Department of Education (DepEd) and Commission on Higher Education (CHED) preparations are now being questioned in light of the order to reopen schools in August. In a public briefing held by the group Cure COVID group, the group tackled questions our nation’s readiness for the…
Farmers, land reform advocates, and peasant groups trooped to the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Quezon City for a lightning protest on the 32nd year of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law. “After 32 years of CARP, 7 out of 10 farmers remain landless. Many have joined our ranks of agriworkers and farmworkers who continue to…