‘Walang makikinabang, lahat talo’
“Kung i-e-employ ang mga healthcare workers, siguradong may makikinabang, siguradong may matutulungan, dito man o sa ibang bansa. Kung itetengga sila rito pero hindi naman i-ha-hire ng gobyerno, walang makikinabang, lahat talo.”
GRP and CPP ceasefire orders unlikely to be extended
After each declaring unilateral ceasefire orders to focus on their respective anti-coronavirus disease (Covid-19) campaigns, the government and the revolutionary forces are unlikely to extend their separate truce declarations due to reports of violations, mainly by GRP forces.
As extended lockdown begins: Gov’t response stalled, stingy despite millions of Filipinos in need
At the end of the original month-long lockdown period and on the first day of its extension, research group IBON said that the government is still failing to give millions of poor and vulnerable Filipinos the socioeconomic relief they need.
Mga mamimili sa Krus na Ligas, nanawagan ng mass testing
Sa unang araw ng ipinangakong community-based mass testing para sa COVID-19, nagbitbit ng plakards ang ilang mamimili sa barangay Krus na Ligas.
Family asks chief justice to free political detainee and other elderly and sickly prisoners
“My father’s freedom will remove him from otherwise high vulnerability to the coronavirus while in prison, and enable us, his family, to better care for him as he struggles through illnesses,” Casambre’s daughter Xandra Biseño said.
‘Nauubos na rin yung aking puhunan’
“Nauubos na rin yung aking puhunan. Dati, namumuhunan, utang pa, bumbay pa, 5-6 pa. Ngayon, wala kaming gaanong tinda. Sisingilin ka pa ng kung anu-anong kautangan mo riyan. Kaya mahirap din po sa kasalukuyan ang nagaganap sa atin.”
PhilArmy drops counter-insurgency leaflets on towns on Easter Sunday, earns condemnations
The Philippine Army dropped counter-insurgency leaflets on Sagada and Besao towns in Mountain Province on Easter Sunday, April 12, in what appears to be another violation of the government’s own ceasefire declaration.
Terminated UAE OFWs told to ask return tickets from employers
The Philippine missions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) told overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) wanting repatriation to demand from their employers return tickets to the Philippines.
Bayan asks government, ‘Where is your health and economic roadmap to end lockdown?’
“The people want to know the comprehensive plans that are being taken to effectively fight Covid-19 en route to lifting the lockdown. Absent a set of goals on lifting or easing the lockdown, it would appear that what the government is preparing for is another lockdown extension,” Bayan warned.
415 Filipino sailors stranded in UAE flown home
A total of 415 Filipino seafarers stranded in the UAE for six weeks returned home to the Philippines on two chartered flights on Saturday and Sunday.