“Today, Health Workers’ Day, we call on the government to look into the plight of our fellow health workers and the public hospitals. We reiterate our demand to increase the public health system budget to at least 5% of the GDP as WHO recommends. This will make health care available to the people and will…
The Office of the Ombudsman indicted former Department of Transportation (DoTr) secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya and 16 others over a P4.2billion contract with several private companies for a three-year maintenance service of the problematic Metro Rail Transit 3 (MRT3). Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales found probable cause to charge Abaya and the other respondents for violation…
Two divorce measures, postponement of barangay, SK polls OKd on second reading Manila Bulletin Proposed postponement of barangay, SK elections hit Sun.Star House resets barangay polls to October The Manila Times Full coverage
Benedictine nuns express their opposition to the anti-terror bill. (Photo downloaded from Facebook) “Worrisome are the expanded and vague definitions of a “terrorist;” the powers given to the Anti-Terror Council to designate a group as a “terrorist group;” the weakening of the protection of one’s privacy and the safeguards against arrests and detention without warrants.”…
Today, November 23, 2018, is the ninth year since a power-crazed madman and his armed minions, among them members of the police, halted a convoy on the national highway in Barangay Saqlman, Ampatuan town, Maguindanao and herded the passengers, along with those of two vehicles that just happened to pass by, to a hilltop in…
Organized primarily by the group Movement Against Tyranny, the event may very well be the most creative protest action this year. The post Checkpoints, rains fail to stop ‘Grand Mañanita’ vs Duterte’s anti-terror bill appeared first on Kodao Productions.