There is no stopping the country’s teachers from marching alongside many sectors this Monday, July 26, to express dismay over President Duterte’s “empty” promises and programs and policies that resulted in the suffering of the country’s education sector. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE) The...
The local government units (LGUs) have the right to permit or reject requests for the staging of rallies in their respective jurisdictions with President Duterte delivering his last State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 26. (DILG logo) The Department of the Interior and Local...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) scored the Makabayan bloc in Congress on Tuesday, July 20, for allegedly spreading lies about the Barangay Development Program (BDP). Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya (DILG photo) Bayan Muna Rep Eufemia Cullamat earlier branded DILG Secretary...
President Duterte’s declaration of running for vice president to avoid the lawsuits he may be facing once his term ends in 2022 “is an insult to voters,” an activist group said Sunday, July 18. President Rodrigo Duterte Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) Secretary General Renato Reyes Jr....
President Rodrigo Duterte will be clothed with immunity from legal prosecution if he wins the 2022 vice presidential race but this protection applies only in local setting and not in international courts of justice. President Rodrigo Duterte Duterte’s announcement that he would seek the vice...
House deputy minority leader and Bayan Muna Party-list Representative Carlos Isagani Zarate on Saturday, July 17, vowed that the Bayan Muna and the rest of the Makabayan bloc would oppose and block the additional P40 billion Barangay Development fund (BDF) that the National Task Force to End Local...
A total of 151 local government units have rallied behind the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) social reintegration program for recovering persons who use drugs (RPWUDs). (Screenshot from DSWD website) DSWD Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista cited the LGUs’ support to...
While majority of their House of Representatives colleagues appeared to have ignored the significance of July 12, three congressmen didn’t let the day pass by without underscoring the fact that this is the date Philippines won against superpower China an arbitral ruling on the West Philippine Sea...
The government has declared two Minahang Bayan (MB) areas in Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) covering a combined mining area of 50 hectares. In two separate announcements, Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) in CAR said that the Provincial Mining and Regulatory Board of Abra (PMRB-Abra)...
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) secretary general Renato Reyes Jr. has expressed his support for Vice President Leni Robredo’s suggestion that a crisis in education must be declared. During her weekly radio show, Robredo proposed that the government must declare an “ education crisis ” in...
“Unbelievable!” Bayan Muna Rep. Ferdinand Gaite gave this reaction to the denial of the Presidential Communications Operations Office that none of the 375 contractual employees it hired last year was assigned to a troll farm. Facebook troll PCOO Undersecretary Kris Ablan aired the denial after...
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Assistant Secretary Celine Pialago has engaged another congressman from the left-leaning Makabayan bloc in a war of words. MMDA Assistant Secretary Celine Pialago (Photo from Asec Pialago's Facebook) In a Facebook post Thursday, July 8, Pialago hit...
