With the cases increasing, concerned government agencies are swamped with backlogs, particularly on validating COVID-19 cases and an overwhelmed public health system. By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte is set to deliver his fifth State of the Nation Address on Monday. But where does the country stand now with the…
Progressive groups here will go back to the streets since the start of the Covid-19 quarantine in time with President Duterte’s fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) this Monday, July 27, 2020.
By LEON DULCE A complex array of multiple crises slowly brewing for four years breached the tipping point and inundated the Philippines in just the last four and a half months. This is the story of our nation as we approach the upcoming State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte. The COVID-19 pandemic…
The proliferation of terror-tagging posters and the issuance of protest bans days leading up to President Rodrigo Duterte’s fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) are “blatant acts of cowardice from a fascist and tyrannical regime trembling in fear in the face of the people’s mass resistance,” human rights alliance Karapatan stated. read more
Church leaders file a petition against the Anti-Terror Act of 2020 before the Supreme Court, July 24. (Photo by Leah Valencia) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Church leaders joined the mounting legal opposition against the controversial Anti-Terror Act of 2020 as they filed their own petition today, July 24, before the Supreme…
Fidel Agcaoili, chair of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace negotiation panel, passed away on July 23 in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Ni JOI BARRIOS Una kang lagi kung bumati sa tuwing may nagdiriwang ng kaarawan. Anong karangalan, na iyong mapahalagahan ang bawat isa sa amin, na hirap mapantayan ang iyong sakripisyo, ang buong buhay na inihandog sa bayan. Ama kang kinilala ng bawat kasama pagkat ngayon ay panahon na kailangan ng huwaran. Bayani ng bayan, hayaan…