Farmer’s group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said the so-called mis-encounter between government troops earlier this week in Sta. Rita, Samar is inevitable under President Rodrigo Duterte’s counterinsurgency program Oplan Kapayapaan. “The government’s own policy Oplan Kapayapaan and not Murphy’s Law is responsible for the mis-encounter between the 1st Platoon, 805th Company, Regional Mobile Force Battalion…
Three South Korean national are facing charges for the importation of several tons of garbage at a local port here last year, said the Bureau of Customs (BOC) Region 10.
It is not yet a severe economic crisis as such but the accumulation of economic bad news is worrying. It is clear that the fundamentals are unsound and the economy is weakening aside from increasingly vulnerable to a political upheaval or to a renewed global downturn. The majority of Filipinos are poor and gained little…
A scene reminiscent of the first time the lockdown was imposed in Metro Manila in March was seen on the day before the region was placed back into a stricter quarantine or lockdown, where people are ordered to stay at home, only essential workers and industries allowed to operate and public transport is suspended. This…
THE DUTERTE administration is rehashing the same old recipe in preparing its P3.757 trillion proposed national budget, as it is laden with pork barrel while at the same time scrimping funds for social services. Legislators from the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives reiterated that while there are delays in the Congress deliberations of…
An oligarchy is governed by a few families and individuals. While wealth is indeed among its members’ more obvious attributes, wealth alone does not make an oligarch. The capacity to influence or control government and governance does. An oligarch is therefore someone who, by virtue of birth, wealth, religious affiliation, or control over the coercive…