Battle lines have been drawn long ago. As the battle for a free Palestine intensifies on multiple fronts, we recognize that this larger fight extends to, and necessitates, CUNY ending its repression of student activists and esteemed professors like Corinna Mullin.
Such vituperation against SB 1979 begs the question: What exactly is ‘wrong’ with preventing adolescent pregnancy through sex education in schools?
As it is, one official who has the President’s ear is being tagged as the mastermind of the “massacre” at the Bureau of Customs (BOC), which generates between 30% and 35% of government revenue collections annually.
The Philippines ranks 7th worst in minimum wages among 10 economies worldwide based on its December 9, 2024 listing. These countries are: India; Nigeria; Uzbekistan; Pakistan; Armenia; Kazakhstan; Philippines; Ukraine; Vietnam, and; Indonesia.
It is perplexing, to say the least, that Jay Ruiz is still with the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) and Mel Robles is still the head honcho of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) despite the promise of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. himself to weed out the corrupt and the incompetent in government agencies.
That is the farcical argument foisted by a gang that purports to be a think tank in viscerally opposing the proposed P200 legislated wage increase, along with columnists who think that the economic savior – foreign direct investment — would not touch the country with a ten-foot-pole because of its “astronomical” wage level.
All his braggadocio has evaporated, all the vicious slander against his political enemies reduced to a whimper. He must be comfortable with the wandering spirit of Slobodan Milosevic, who died at the Scheveningen prison in The Hague before his trial for the Srebrenica genocide was concluded. Well, misery loves company.
Owners of columbarium crypts at the Risen Christ Memorial Garden (RCMG) at the St. Alphonsus Mary de Liguori Parish in Magallanes Village, Makati City have asked Jose F. Cardinal Advincula of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila (RCAM) to help them secure the official receipts of their payments, expressing surprise why only scanned copies of their checks and official receipts from the parish were provided to them.
Calubid Jr. will be subject to further injustice since the state cannot be expected to compensate him for unjust prosecution. Moreover, under Republic Act No. 7309, only those convicted are eligible for compensation by the Board of Claims. The compensation is based on the number of months of imprisonment or detention, for a maximum of P1,000 per month.
The complaining Batangas farmers, fisherfolk, sugarcane planters and agricultural workers tried thrice to get an audience with the DA at its central office but the department apparently was deaf to their pleas.
