The National Water Resources Board (NWRB) has initiated a 15 per cent reduction in raw water allocation for the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) to preserve the remaining supply in Angat Dam, Manila’s main supplier.
For the longest time, trash pickers in landfills had been symbols of poverty in the Philippines. Their lives atop the garbage are pictures of inhumanity.
That children are among the hapless victims while only very few were charged for the mass murders make it necessary that the case is tried by an international court.
“It is fundamentally about access, affordability, and transparency in the energy system. As interest in rooftop solar continues to grow among Filipino households and businesses, the response should be to enable informed and responsible adoption, not constrain it,” ICSC said.
In a special session on Wednesday, the High Court voted 9-5-1 (denial-agreement-abstention) rejecting dela Rosa’s appeal, clearing the way for law enforcement agencies to arrest the fugitive senator.
While President Marcos’ personal wealth soared, IBON said his presidency has completed a stagflationary (stagnation and inflationary) hat trick: soaring prices, worsening jobs and slowing growth.
The Marcos government’s Economic Security Zone effectively grants extraordinary and extraterritorial foreign jurisdiction, operational control, and long-term legal privileges over a vast area of Philippine territory, ILPS-Philippines said.
Two University of the Philippines (UP) student parties joined growing calls for accountability from political leaders, demanding that Alan Peter Cayetano resign as Senate President following allegations he allowed fugitive Senator Ronald de la Rosa’s escape on Thursday.
The dismissal of charges against Community Empowerment Resource Network, Inc. (CERNET), its officers, and council members is a blow to the continuing weaponization of laws against activists and development organizations, NUPL said.
The Senate last year reached the same stage of senators putting on their trial court robes and taking their oaths as senator-judges before Duterte allies in the chamber successfully delayed and ultimately blocked the proceedings.
