By: Julie M. Aurelio – Reporter/Philippine Daily Inquirer /September 25, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Imagine the notoriously slow Tesda (or the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority) spending billions in less than two weeks. Despite its historically low utilization of its budget, Tesda has “miraculously” done exactly that: obligating P4 billion in scholarship funds in…
By Anri Ichimura, esquiremag.ph The Madrid store is now Jollibee’s biggest restaurant in Europe. Talk about Jollibee fever. Madrid-based OFWs and Spanish customers waited as early as 10 p.m. on September 22 for the opening of Jollibee’s first-ever store in Spain on September 23. The eager customers braved Madrid’s cold nighttime weather for a guaranteed…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer /September 24, 2021 The ironically named House committee on good government and accountability has slammed as “political” the Senate probe into the Pharmally deal, which has so far revealed how, among other anomalies, a small favored foreign supplier cornered a multibillion government contract for face masks, personal protective equipment, and test…
By: Christia Marie Ramos – Reporter / INQUIRER.net /September 22, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee uncovered the “mother of all corruption” in the Duterte’s administration’s pandemic supply deals with a foreign-led company, Senator Richard Gordon said Wednesday. As long as more anomalies are discovered, Gordon said his committee will not stop…
Pilgrims for Peace, a network of peace advocates which has been supporting the peace negotiations between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), has urged the GPH to assure proper care and treatment for NDFP peace consultant Loida Magpatoc who was arrested several days before in Mindanao….
September 22, 2021 By Veronica Silva CusiThe Philippine Reporter Filipinos in Toronto on September 19 commemorated the 49th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines with a protest vigil calling for the end of rule of President Rodrigo Duterte, who they likened to the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos. “Never again, never…
In time for the 49th year of Marcos’ declaration of fascist rule, Filipinos in the Netherlands and Dutch solidarity network for the Filipino people’s struggle for peace and justice held a protest demonstration at the Statenkwartier in The Hague where the Philippine embassy, World Forum and the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Court…
(First person account of the people’s protests in Manila during the anniversary of Marcos’ declaration of martial law in 1972, September 21, 2021 – Ed). Blockhouse. This was the tactic used by the Philippine National Police to prevent participants from massing uip in the #TamaNa #WakasanNa rally at Liwasang Bonifacio (September 21, 49th anniversary of…