Overseas Filipino workers returning from Kuwait. (Photo from DFA website) “Heaps of backlog in swab testing, slow release of test results, congested quarantine facilities, distressed OFWs, slow repatriation to provinces – will the government still wait for an outbreak before these problems are resolved?” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Migrant groups are…
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Total COVID-19 cases among health workers number to 2,330 as of May 20, after 15 new cases were reported. Yesterday, there were no new COVID-19 cases among health workers. Number of deaths went down by two again, with the DOH explaining that later validation showed that the four were not on active duty or were…
STATEMENT Information is of utmost importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reporting the people’s grievances and demands is the solemn duty of the media; it is not a crime. The Guimba municipal council’s Sangguniang Bayan Resolution No. 52 s.2020 last May 11 empowered the mayor of the Nueva Ecija town to file criminal charges against radio…
Farmers from Norzagaray worried of their harvest left hanging to dry or rot on the land they could no longer access, for fear of retaliation from armed goons roaming the area. (Photo by Nikki Teng / Philippine Collegian) “Regional inequalities in the country can be reduced by providing economic dynamism in rural areas, which have…
Arguing that there is no flattening the curve and no second wave? But DOH has talked of starting to flatten the curve and delaying a third wave since May 6. But as early as May 6, the Department of Health (DOH) said in its press briefing that the Philippines is beginning to flatten the curve….
Houses inundated by floods in Catubig, Northern Samar in the aftermath of typhoon Ambo. (Photo downloaded from Facebook account of Catubig Vice Mayor Dex Galit ) Amihan said that areas hit by Ambo were the same areas where social amelioration programs of the government have been slow. These are Eastern Visayas, Bicol and Southern Tagalog,…
Townsfolk crowd Guimba’s municipal hall during SAP distribution. (Radyo Natin Guimba photo) “What is wrong and what violation is committed by Radyo Natin Guimba when it only gives voice to the people in order for their appeals and complaints to be heard while they are under quarantine and are unable to work?” By RAYMUND B….