By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star As governments, economists and investors fret and wonder when the current global recession will end — with its record levels of unemployment and impoverishment in the US and Europe — the World Bank has issued a report with a curiously surprising finding: extreme poverty…
Day: March 16, 2012
Politicians all
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The battle over the impeachment of Renato Corona is being fought between the camp of Benigno Aquino III and that of Renato Corona, who is no less a politician than, say, your garden-variety congressman. Corona meets all the qualifications except one: he has never been elected, and,…
Groups declare ‘People’s Protest’ a success
By MARYA SALAMAT
When the government and the oil firms heard of the impending protests against oil price hikes early this week, they changed their tune about an impending oil price hike also this week.
Sidebar: Ordinary citizens express disgust over oil price hikes
Anti-mining advocate in Bukidnon killed inside his own home
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
As village chief, Jimmy Liguyon had consistently rebuffed agreements with mining firms, blocking their operation on ancestral lands of indigenous peoples and making him a target of paramilitary groups and the Philippine Army’s 8th Infantry Battalion.
Ordinary citizens express disgust over oil price hikes
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO and RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Main Story: Groups declare ‘People’s Protest’ a success MANILA – Fe Nibasa, 39, brought along her seven-year-old son, the youngest of her five children, in a protest action against the incessant oil price hikes at Stop and Shop, Sta. Mesa, Manila, March 14. Nibasa, the…
Vilification of activists continues with Oplan Bayanihan
By RONALYN V. OLEA
After investigating extrajudicial killings here in 2007, Philip Alston, then UN Special Rapporteur for extrajudicial executions, tagged the vilification of activists as one of the practices that gave rise to these killings. But vilification has continued.
For sake of consumers, gov’t should regulate oil industry to ensure transparent pricing
By SONNY AFRICA IBON Foundation, Inc. As the world marks International Consumer Rights Day, research group IBON said that the consuming public, which bears the brunt of unabated oil price hikes, has the right to know how the oil companies determine oil prices. The group urged government to regulate the oil industry to ensure transparency…
Three months after Sendong, Iligan residents still far from rebuilding their lives
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Residents of Iligan City got no help from local and national government. Where did the hundreds of millions of pesos in donations received by the city government and the Dept. of Social Welfare & Development go?