The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) reported, the mining industry contributed only P126.4 billion in 2021 or 0.65% of the gross domestic product (GDP), P153.1-billion the following year or 0.69% of the GDP.
“Pity the nation, oh pity the people///who allow their rights to erode///and their freedoms to be washed away///My country, tears of thee///Sweet land of liberty!”
On the same day that KULU struck, workers trooped to the Manila office of the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board (RTWPB) to demand the approval of the P1,200 family living wage as well as the congressional approval of the P200 wage increase.
There is this worrying yarn being peddled by the extractive industry, that mining can be sustainable but no one has yet succeeded in growing mineral ores the way farmers nurture their crops, or employing biomimesis to coax ores to reproduce, the way some scientists have succeeded in engineering plants to produce non-plastic filaments.
Makabayan Coalition said it will continue to question the election results and fight for transparency and accountability in the 2025 polls. l
Not content with his own weird airport in Bulakan, Bulacan in addition to controlling the management of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Ang may be enamored with Bugsuk Island’s grandeur for him to have yet another airstrip on the property long considered part of the ancestral domain of the indigenous people (IP) of Palawan.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) should prove to millions of Filipino voters that no hanky-panky attended the May 12, 2025 midterm elections by acceding to the request of Gabriela partylist to investigate the matter of 18 million invalidated overvote cases.
First, Cardema lied about his age. Second, another nominee lied about her surname. Fraud is fraud and a lie is a lie.
By allowing the Cardema clique to have its own partylist, then it follows that Arroyo Youth, Roxas Youth, Aquino Youth, Bong Go Youth, Sara Duterte Youth and Marcos Youth must all be authorized to participate.
The most “epal” politician this side of the planet is none other than Sen. Bong Go and he basks on being No. 1 in the senatorial race on account of his “Malasakit Centers,” which is another bureaucratic layer in the already heavily-bureaucratized Duterte-Marcos Jr. administrations.
