The payment for the first installment of real property taxes has been extended by the city government of Davao for three months, or until the end of June this year.
Overseas Filipino workers returning from Kuwait. (Photo from DFA website) Looking at history, one can say that state abandonment is very much the official disposition on which the labor export system is hinged. The Philippine government is fundamentally inclined to function simply as what sociologist Robyn Rodriguez calls a “labor brokerage state,” an institutional apparatus…
Cecil Morella – Agence France-Presse June 27, 2022, Philstar.com MANILA, Philippines — Six years after four policemen burst into her Manila slum shack and shot dead her husband and teenage son, Mary Ann Bonifacio fears for her own life as she fights for justice. Bonifacio is pursuing the men in court in the hope of proving…
A regional board regulating public transportation urges jeepney drivers to follow protocols on social distancing, while drivers are raring to go back to the road to earn for their family.
We are aware that the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has been conducting investigations on the attacks and killings of human rights defenders based on the complaints filed before their offices and on the testimonies given during their public inquiry in September 2019. read more
Photo courtesy of Bayan Muna Party-list The petition demands a thorough review of MMDA Regulation No. 19-002 which revokes the permits to all provincial public utility bus (PUB) terminals and operators along EDSA. By JOHN AARON MARK MACARAEG Bulatlat.com MANILA — In the wake of the Metro Manila Development Authority’s (MMDA) rush to ban provincial…
Jennifer and her mother Alice (Photo by J. Ellao / Bulatlat.com) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — In the five long years that Jennifer Dalquez languished in jail as a prisoner in death row, she always knew in her heart that she will one day go home. “My faith was very strong. I…