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[OPINION] Love of country is not love of government May 20, 2021 4:40 PM PHT Michelle Lado “ Ang hirap mong mahalin, Pilipinas,” is a rant many of us make. And why not? Despite doing our part, the government keeps on dragging the country through the mud. Whatever progress we make as a country is quickly negated by the incompetence of our officials. They ruin our optimism that change for the better is still possible.  But we need to realize that the government is not the Philippines, and that the Philippines is not the government. The Philippines is The People. It is our collective strugg...

Time to plant our feet on the ground BusinessWorld 4 hrs ago © Provided by BusinessWorld Last Wednesday, nearly all the broadsheets reported that the Government’s Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) finally slashed the Philippines’ growth target for 2021 from 6.5-7.5% to 6-7%. We can only surmise that the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) release of the first quarter real GDP growth of minus 4.2% must have forced the hands of the authorities. In a joint statement, our economic managers declared that “the emerging GDP growth projection is slightly adjusted… in ...

Published May 15, 2021, 11:28 AM Commission on Human Rights The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is set to conduct its own probe on the reported mass surrender of 244 individuals and suspected communist rebels allegedly affiliated with Bayan Muna and the urban poor organization Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (KADAMAY) last April 30. It said it had a dialogue with Bayan Muna Chairperson Neri Colmenares who claimed that the reported mass surrender was “fake” and branded it as another instance of red-tagging that was used to vilify any dissent against the government. In his letter to CHR, C...

Online caravan on updated PDP to be launched in Caraga Philippine Information Agency 14 May 2021, 18:38 GMT+10 BUTUAN CITY, May 14 (PIA) -- The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) will conduct the Caraga leg of the virtual caravan on the updated Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022 on May 18, 2021, via Zoom teleconference and Facebook Live to strengthen stakeholder engagement and gain wider support for the PDP. The updated PDP 2017-2022 is anchored on the 0+10 Socioeconomic Agenda of the Duterte Administration and the first medium-term plan geared towards the AmBisyon Na...

Published May 13, 2021, 12:28 PM Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad), the government water concessionaire for the West Zone, said it will cost them P29 billion to build several sewage treatment plants (STP) across the metropolis. In a statement, Maynilad said that it is now simultaneously building several STPs in Caloocan, Las Piñas, Central Manila, Valenzuela, and Muntinlupa. Based on the company’s estimates, the CAMANA (Caloocan-Malabon-Navotas) and Las Piñas Water Reclamation Facilities will contribute around 16 percent additional sewerage coverage in the West Zone with a target c...