Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel is asking the Marcos administration to declare a mental health emergency in the country as a way to address the unprecedented number of suicides and attempted suicides among Filipino youth the past year. (Unsplash) In a statement Thursday, Feb. 2, Kabataan...
The Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives urged the public to “resoundingly reject” moves to change the Constitution as it lambasted the Marcos administration and its allies for attempts to amend key provisions set to safeguard the country’s democracy. (From left) Kabataan Party-list...
The Kabataan Partylist on Wednesday, November 30 joined calls for a general wage increase, lower prices of basic commodities, and further economic assistance for the toiling majority. In a statement, Rep. Raoul Manuel said the young labor force are the lifeblood of the country and thus, deserve...
Millions of students trooped to their respective schools on Monday, Aug. 22, as the country reopened schools two years after being locked down in an online learning setup. However, progressive party-list groups and youth-led organizations urged students to document and expose “both examples of...
Makabayan bloc solons have pitched different ways for government to generate revenue even as they thumbed down the proposed tax on “ukay-ukay” or second-hand clothes. 'Ukay-ukay' clothes This, after House Ways and Means Chairman and Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda said that his committee...
The word war between Vice President and Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Sara Duterte and the Makabayan bloc continued to rage on Thursday, Aug. 11, after one of the militant lawmakers referred to Duterte as the new “red-tagging queen". Vice President Sara Duterte (left) and Kabataan...
As far as Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel is concerned, the public support that the movie "Maid in Malacañang" is enjoying is merely "manufactured". Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel The neophyte solon made this claim Thursday morning, Aug. 4, during the weekly press conference of the...
More lawmakers have revealed the items they wished President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. can tick off when he delivers his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 25, at the Batasang Pambansa Complex in Quezon City. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Among the...
When it comes to Philippine politics, readers of the Manila Bulletin are quite savvy--but always in a hurry. So much in a hurry that most of them may not have realized that some 150 or nearly half of the House of Representatives members in the 19th Congress are either complete neophytes or...
Progressive solons and party-list groups want the return of Philippine history in the country’s educational curriculum after actress Ella Cruz, who is portraying Irene Marcos in a pro-Marcos film, likened history to gossip. (JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Representatives Raoul...
For Celine Pialago, Kabataan Party-List Rep. Sarah Jane Elago is an alleged example of a "brainwashed" person who can no longer be changed by the government, no matter what it does. MMDA Assistant Secretary Celine Pialago speaking her mind during the "Kabataan Party-List Decoded" virtual forum on...
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Assistant Secretary Celine Pialago has slammed what she described as Kabataan Party-List Rep. Sarah Jane Elago's attempts at "damage control” following the death of Keith Absalon in the hands of the New People’s Army (NPA). MMDA Assistant...