The viral photo is one of the scenes during the first day of in-person classes last August 22 in a flooded school due to high tide in Macabebe town, Pampanga. The photo was taken by freelance photojournalist Lisa Marie David for international news agency, Reuters.
The KPL and its representative have never issued any statement which supports the mandatory ROTC.
The PDI news desk and their beat reporter, Jane Bautista, stand by the veracity of the report of an entire class of Grade 7 students asked to sit on the floor because the chairs in the classroom were insufficient.
Aangat Buhay PH, a FB personal blog supporting former Vice President Leni Robredo, has made a separate post owning up to its mistake in a bid to avoid the spread of disinformation.
Like many other institutions and groups who have issued their own statements on this issue, we believe that the WTE incinerator project is NOT the correct solution to an urgent problem we are facing now and which could only worsen in the years to come.
Please reconsider the 3.486 B PhP resolution and give priority to zero waste technology and ecowaste management that is the safe and environmentally-sound solution to the waste problem.
A street vendor plies his festival-themed headpieces and necklaces at the main thoroughfares of Davao City during the Indak-Indak sa Kadayawan Saturday, August 20. This year’s celebration of Kadayawan sa Davao is conducted face-to-face, a first after two years of holding it online due to the pandemic. (davaotoday.com photo by Bern Pormento)
Last June, ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan requested the pre-trial chamber to allow the resumption of the investigation.
In their separate reports, both Altermidya and News5 flagged the dangers of baseless accusations such as red-tagging, which was also stressed by the UP President’s Advisory Council itself in a statement.
The authors issued a joint statement defending their works as translation of human experiences.
