(Unsplash) Noting that illegal recruiters are becoming more creative with their evil schemes, Davao City 1st district Rep. Paolo Duterte has reiterated the need to pass a law that would classify two or more persons engaged in illegal recruitment as...
PARIS, France -- Iran's protest crackdown has helped push the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide to a record high of 533 in 2022, according to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Wednesday. The figure is up from 488 in 2021, already a record, according to the France-based...
Gabriela Party-list on Tuesday, July 19, pushed for heftier penalties--including jail time of 12 years--on employers found violating the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Law. (Photo by Jansen Romero / MANILA BULLETIN) House Bill (HB) 2126, which seeks to criminalize OSH violations, has been...
BOCALA when she was freed by an Iloilo City court for the peace talks in Norway in 2016. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – A court in Metro Manila has sentenced a high-ranking official of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) to life imprisonment for a 1975 murder. A Taguig...
BAGUIO CITY -- The local court here has sentenced the last drug kingpin of Baguio City to life imprisonment. In a joint decision issued by Judge Rufus Malecdan, Jr. of Branch 60, First Judicial Region, Baguio City, Federico Oliveros, 40, alias "Eric," was sentenced to life imprisonment for...
Makabayan party senatorial candidate Neri Colmenares has called for the immediate release of Senator Leila de Lima on the fifth year anniversary of her incarceration for drug charges. “As Senator Leila de Lima marks her fifth year of unjust detention, I join the calls to free the senator and drop...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government warned on Sunday, Feb. 13, that charges will be filed against erring political aspirants and their supporters who would be caught violating health protocols during the campaign period. DILG Secretary Eduardo Año maintained that campaign activity...
DO NOT RESIST LIFE, FOR ALL OF US ARE CAPTIVES Life is not a prison, but a place for us to contribute in It’s not fair, to be locked up here, when there’s a whole world out there, beyond what my eyes can see, beyond what my mind can see. There are oceans I have yet to cross and oceans I would...
