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Published April 3, 2021, 4:14 PM With the possible extension of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region (NCR)-Plus bubble, the Duterte administration should abandon its “failed” militarist approach and instead ramp up more health and medical solutions to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Bayan Muna representative and House Deputy Minority Leader Carlos Isagani Zarate said on Saturday.         Bayan Muna partylist Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate (Ba...

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 17) — A Mandaluyong judge was red-tagged in a tarpaulin along Shaw Boulevard near EDSA after she ordered the release of a journalist and a union organizer. Mandaluyong Regional Trial Court Branch 209 Judge Monique Quisumbing Ignacio earlier cleared journalist Lady Ann Salem and trade unionist Rodrigo Esparago of charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives. Bayan Muna Rep. Ferdinand Gaite criticized the attack against Quisumbing-Igna...

Published March 17, 2021 6:05pm By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Wednesday decried a tarpaulin linking Mandaluyong Regional Trial Court Branch 209 Judge Monique Quisumbing-Ignacio to communists over her order to release a detained journalist and trade unionist. “Such incriminating claims in the tarpaulin that links Judge Quisumbing-Ignacio to the Communist Party of the Philippines without any specific and verifiable evidence exposes her to grave dan...

Zarate slams Roque for frequent trips, calls Sinas ‘epitome of impunity’ By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News Published March 15, 2021 4:56pm Bayan Muna party-list Representative Carlos Isagani Zarate had choice words for two prominent government officials who recently announced their positive COVID-19 diagnoses, calling one "pasaway" (stubborn) and the other the epitome of "impunity." In a statement on Monday, Zarate branded Presidential spokesman Harry Roque as the ultimate example of "...

By LLANESCA T. PANTI, GMA News Published March 15, 2021 12:20pm Updated March 15, 2021 4:55pm Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque on Monday announced that he tested positive for COVID-19. “Positibo po ako para sa COVID-19. Nag-test po ako kahapon lamang dahil sa pagpupulong kay Presidente mamaya, at ngayon po lumabas na positibo (I tested positive for COVID-19. I had myself tested yesterday because I will be meeting the President today, and the results came in today),” Roque said ...

Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque received taunts, instead of sympathy, from Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate for testing positive to the dreaded novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19),

Nothing wrong with rules on search warrant, judges should act based on examination – applicants for Chief Justice enablePagination: false endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 12) — Two magistrates gunning for the Chief Justice post believe the country has sufficient rules on the issuance of search warrants, a topic that became controversial recently following the deaths of nine activists in search operations that had the go signal of local courts. No less than Chief Justice Diosd...

Published March 11, 2021, 8:32 PM Four days after nine alleged activists were killed in the so-called Bloody Sunday” raids. Bodies of some of the fatalities have not been released to the next-of-kin despite appeals made to the police that have custody of the remains. The continued police refusal to release the four bodies heightened suspicions that law enforcers were trying to cover evidences that would prove claims that the activists were liquidated. Family members had intended to bring t...

Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → March → 11 → Manny Asuncion: A worker who embraced the bigger fight for social justice Manny Asuncion: A worker who embraced the bigger fight for social justice By JUSTIN UMALI SANTA CRUZ, Laguna — Activists use the term ‘ka’, short for ‘kasama’ (comrade), as a term of endearment and a sign of respect to those who willingly took on the road less travelled. For his comrades in the Southern Tagalog region, Emmanuel Asuncion was m...

A former congressman urged the Supreme Court to review its rules on the effectivity of issued search warrants following questions surrounding the case of the slain activists in Calabarzon.