Benjo Basas, the national chairperson of Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC), has tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and is currently confined in a hospital in Caloocan City. TDC National Chairperson Benjo Basas (Photo from Teachers' Dignity Coalition Facebook page) TDC, a...
Another local pro-climate action group has underscored the urgency of the message being conveyed by the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC. (Photo by Bill Oxford/ Unsplash) “The science is clear: there is no time to lose for climate action,” said Jon...
The Philippines' continued preference for dirty energy sources like coal is no longer justifiable especially with the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest climate science findings, the Power for People Coalition (P4P) said on Tuesday, Aug. 10. (Photo from P4P...
The Single-Use Plastics (SUP) Ban Bill that was recently passed on third and final reading by the House of Representatives favors plastic producers more than anything else. Greenpeace Philippines campaigner Marian Ledesma (Screengrab from Zoom meeting) Thus, said Greenpeace Philippines campaigner...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Monday, August 9 said he is unperturbed with the emerging number of political parties that have pledged their support to Hugpong ng Pagbabago’s Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio. Sotto, Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) chairman, and who is expected...
Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III on Monday, August 9, said he, too, respects Vice President Leni Robredo's rejection of Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson's proposal to unify the opposition for the 2022 elections, even as he believed that the vice president should not have shot it down right...
Amid the surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country, a group called on the Department of Education (DepEd) not to put the health and safety of its personnel in “danger” especially during the “Brigada Eskwela” period. Photo taken during the 'Brigada Eskwela' in 2019...
Albay 2nd District Representative Joey Salceda said on Thursday, August 5, that Senator Sherwin Gatchalian should be the running mate of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte in the 2022 election. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian (Senate of the Philippines) For Salceda, Gatchalian is the "most qualified" to be...
If there is one thing former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales remembers about the late former President Benigno Aquino III, it is that he had always asked her to “keep your independence” and “go after the corrupt” since her job entailed looking into the dubious practices of government...
Convenors of opposition coalition 1Sambayan believe that the traits exhibited by the late former President Benigno Aquino III are what the country needs amid a raging pandemic and the collapse of the country’s moral and democratic institutions. 1Sambayan (Photo courtesy of Neri Colmenares) Former...
Senate Minority Leader and Liberal Party vice chairman Franklin Drilon on Tuesday, August 3 rejected assumptions that Vice President Leni Robredo has given up a possible presidential bid in the upcoming May 2022 national elections. Drilon reiterated that the Liberal Party’s objective is for the...
Informal waste sector (IWS) workers from Metro Manila are pleading for cash aid or "ayuda" from the national government during the upcoming two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) from Aug. 6 to 20. E-waste dismantlers in Camarin, Caloocan City (Photo from EcoWaste Coalition) “Ang hiling...
