MANILA — Health spending experienced possibly the steepest drop under the Arroyo administration and this has forced Filipinos to pay more for badly needed health services, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation.
UTRECHT — ? The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) on Friday filed formal complaints before a special body of the United Nations for the enforced disappearance of two NDFP personnel and charged President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and nine of her senior security officials as responsible for the disappearances.
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Manila — ?Filipino laborers work so hard to keep body
and soul together. One of the basic needs they dream
of is a decent house for their family,? said
Senatorial Candidate Cesar Montano, in his Labor Day
statement to media. He disclosed that one of his
legislative agenda is focused at encouraging
Filipinos, especially the poor and the homeless, to
avail of government?s housing programs. He calls it
the ?Work-for-a-House policy? aimed at getting people
to literally ?work for their houses?.
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In Compostela Valley?s villages, a de facto martial law exists. Civilians have been tortured, detained, harassed and killed as the military increases its presence in the resource-rich province in order to protect, according to residents and activists, plantation and mining companies. The deaths of Grecil Buya in March and the killing of two civilians by soldiers last Wednesday were the offshoots of yet another case of ?development aggression.?
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MANILA — The parents of Grecil Buya, the nine-year-old girl killed by the army during a firefight with communist rebels in New Bataan, Compostela Valley, on March 31, filed charges against the military before the Office of the Ombudsman.
Gregorio Galacio and Virginia Buya went to the ombudsman on Friday to file administrative charges against 2nd Lt. Francis John Gabawa and his men in a platoon belonging to the 67th IB who were responsible for Grecil’s death.