Bayan Muna Party-list on Wednesday, April 30, told National Security Council (NSC) assistant director general Jonathan Malaya to stop lecturing them about patriotism following the militant group's criticism of the government's purchase of a BrahMos cruise missile system. The group's former...
Former Bayan Muna Party-list representative Carlos Zarate on Monday, April 28, has warned the Philippine government from falling into the "trap" caused by the rivalry of the world's superpowers following China's latest provocation on the sovereignty of the Philippines, which is...
Bayan Muna Executive Vice President and former congressman Carlos Zarate on Friday, April 25, hit the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Board's approval of the increased projected cost of the Kaliwa Dam project, saying it "raises serious questions about transparency and...
Former Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate on Monday, April 7, criticized (US) President Donald Trump's imposition of a 17 percent tariff on Philippine exports, which other government officials viewed as rather advantageous. For Zarate, the US government's move "is hypocritical and...
(John Louie Abrina/MANILA BULLETIN) Former Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate has a big problem with the government’s justification for the hefty fare hike on the Light Rail Transit (LRT)-1. In particular, Zarate questioned the...
Worrisome reports saying that Filipino seafarers are being left to fend for themselves aboard abandoned ships must be investigated immediately by the government, former Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate said. Zarate reckoned that the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW), Congress and other...
(Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Former Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate slammed local oil companies on Monday, Jan. 20 for their imminent "big time" price hike reaching as high as P2.80 per liter on pump fuel prices. "Kala mo...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Former Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate said local government units (LGUs) must not give undue burden to food delivery riders in the form of business permit requirements. Accordig to Zarate, delivery riders are already...
Former Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate Belated, but necessary. That's how former Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate described President Marcos' issuance of Executive Order (EO) No. 74, which bans Philippine Offshore Gaming...
Lawyers Neri Colmenares and Carlos Zarate of Bayan Muna Party-list would be good additions to the constitutional convention (con-con). Ex-Bayan Muna Party-list Reps. Neri Colmenares (left) and Carlos Zarate (Facebook) Thus, said no less than Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez,...
Were you thrilled by this week's "big time" price rollback on pump fuel products? Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate (Facebook) If so, you shouldn't, based on former Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate's perspective on fuel price movements so far this 2022. "Since January this year diesel prices...
Present and former lawmakers of the Makabayan bloc ripped apart the Supreme Court’s (SC) decision that favored the implementation of the Manila Electric Company’s (Meralco) power price hikes. ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro and former Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate (photos from congress,gov.ph)...
