Stay updated with breaking news from Danilo Ramos. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Filipino farmers are worried as lawmakers approved on third reading the proposal to amend the Philippine Constitution, dubbed as the “economic Cha-cha” bill, allowing full foreign ownership of land and of the country’s resources. Proponents of the Resolution of Both Houses No. 2, which was adopted on its third…
Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → June → 1 → Groups decry ‘shameless, stomach-churning’ politicking while poor still get no aid Groups decry ‘shameless, stomach-churning’ politicking while poor still get no aid MANILA – With the proposed aid for displaced workers and poor families still far from getting the presidential nod, allies of the administration in the Lower House have been pushing to open up the country’s resources to the plunder of big, foreign powers and to perpetuate Duterte’s rule. Describing the politicking as “shameless and stomach-churni...
Published May 26, 2021, 1:13 PM The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) has batted for a P15,000-subsidy for farmers and fishermen following the approval the House of Representatives on second reading the proposed Bayanihan 3, the government’s third economic stimulus package. In a statement, the KMP called out the House of Representatives for approving Bayanihan 3, which did not particularly set aside cash aid and daily wage relief for agricultural workers. Bayanihan 3 or “Bayanihan to Arise as One” is a P401-billion stimulus package for the Philippine economy during the COVID-19 pan...
Last convo at the ER Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura’s leader Antonio Flores joins a protest action May 11, condemning the injustices against Joseph Canlas. (Photo by Carlo Manalansan / Bulatlat)A daughter’s last conversation with her dying father and the abominable situation inside the Angeles city jail that led to another death of a political prisoner. Joseph Canlas was the ninth under the Duterte administration and the fourth since the COVID-19 pandemic. By SINAG JOAQUIN MANILA — “My father loved to talk. There was no dead air when he was around.” This was how Jenelle describe...
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) has appealed for the release of detained peasant leader Joseph Canlas who was rushed to a hospital on Saturday night, May 8, after experiencing difficulty in breathing. Photo courtesy of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP). In a statement issued