Posts by tag: 2007 Elections

Ibon calls the 2.9 million jobless figures in the latest labor force survey an “underestimation.” It did not include the number of discouraged jobseekers, or those who are willing to take up work from the labor force. Ibon’s higher estimates aims to correct the unwarranted change in the official unemployment definition in April 2005, which conveniently removes discouraged jobseekers and those willing/not available to immediately take up work from the labor force and hence does not count them as officially unemployed even if they do not have jobs.

Ibon estimates that some 2.5 % of the working age population 15 years and over should still be considered part of the labor force, which implies an additional 1.5 million jobless on top of the 2.9 million officially reported– for a total of roughly 4.3 million jobless.

The additional 2.5% is based on the estimated discrepancy in official and actual labor force participation rates in 2008. The number of jobless could be even much higher if, as is likely, labor force participation rates this year become bloated by even greater numbers of discouraged job-seekers.Read on

MANILA — Election watchdog Kontra Daya, warned that the Maguindanao case will haunt the Arroyo administration in the same way…

By CHERYLL D. FIEL

They gave their farewell speeches at the end of their term on Tuesday. But they probably will not be missed because their names will linger in the halls of the City Council, courtesy of the relatives who replaced them.

�The many serious irregularities, anomalies and acts of fraud in the Maguindanao special canvassing, including but not limited to massive vote padding in 16 municipalities and the refusal of the special canvassers to make the municipal canvassers explain why it took them so long to submit the municipal canvass reports are enough reasons to exclude and set aside the alleged Maguindanao certificate of canvass,� said Bayan Muna lawyer Neri Javier Colmenares.

By TYRONE VELEZ

Lawyers of Bayan Muna and the Genuine Opposition wanted the special canvassing to be declared illegal after discovering the irregularities in the certificates of canvass. They also questioned the nature of the special board and the manner it was created.

MANILA– Senate Minority Leader Aquilino �Nene� Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) today called on the Commission on Elections to prevent another…

MANILA — Lawyer Aquilino Pimentel III today cited six more municipalities in Mindanao where �dagdag-bawas� (vote-padding and shaving) operations were…

Analysis | It takes more than a �moral alternative� and religious preaching to be able to take a gutsy position on big issues. The flock should be shepherded into the mass movement for social emancipation that has long taken roots.

The circus that is the recent Philippine midterm elections was an indictment of how Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo “won” her presidency in…

MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino �Nene� Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) said the Genuine Opposition is not buying the claim…