A leader of Mamanwa tribe was gunned down by unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle on Friday, Jan. 20 in Claver, a mining town in Surigao del Norte.
This was how Commission on Higher Education Commissioner Prospero De Vera III described the statement of CHED Chair Patricia Licuanan when she pointed out that the P8.3B allocation will not help the poor because majority have stopped schooling and are no longer enrolled in universities.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines said the lack of justice, 30 years after the Mendiola massacre shows the need for the country to have a genuine agrarian reform program.
If there’s one lesson that the Philippine government could learn from US President Barack Obama ‘s decision on commuting the prison term given to the “Wikileaks” man, it is the government’s treatment of whistleblowers.
The National Union of Students of the Philippines hit out Commission on Higher Education Chairperson Patricia Licuanan as “anti-student and anti-poor” on her remark regarding the new policy of free tuition in state universities and colleges.
No due process.
A labor rights group slammed the Department of Labor and Employment for failing to end the contractualization across the country.
Liza Madagas, 43, a daughter of a Martial law victim said that President Rodrigo Duterte’s new threat about on declaring Martial law was “too much.”
A representative of the Hijo Employees Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Cooperative – 1, denied on Monday that they have had a hand in the recent shooting incident and the forced eviction of the Madaum Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries, Inc. farmers.
Ernie Vacunador, 42, has been farming for more than two decades. But for so long a time, his question remains: why would the country’s food producers find themselves nothing left to eat?
