Menu Home Articles Media Reader, Join Me Injustice of Leila de Lima: The Challenge of Reckoning Even if we knew exactly who are responsible for Leila de Lima’s 7-year wrongful imprisonment, who could make them responsible? The Executive? Congress? Ombudsman? Let us go through them one by one. Sen. Risa Hontiveros called on “the authorities […]
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[T]he PDP target is for AFF exports to annually by 6.4%. Under PBBM, not only did they not increase by that 6.4% a year, the value of real exports actually contracted by a dismaying 12.5%.
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Menu Home Articles Media Reader, Join Me DOOR NUMBER 1 OR DOOR NUMBER 2? How to (Not) Make Data-Driven Choices November 13-19, 2023 Reader, let’s do a mental exercise. Put yourself in place of a head-hunter, or a Human Resource expert, or, let’s be honest, PBBM. You are tasked with looking for the most
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The barangay elections are over, and it’s time to get involved. As a member of the community, you have the power to suggest members for the Lupon Tagapamayapa, the barangay justice system, and object to the PB’s list. Additionally, the Barangay Assembly allows you to initiate legislative processes, adopt initiatives as a legal process, and hear and pass upon the Sangguniang Barangay’s semestral report. Don’t wait to get involved and ensure good governance in your barangay.
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Menu Home Articles Media Reader, Join Me Focus: The Philippine National Police Efforts to Cure the PNP Oct. 2-8, 2023 There is recent news of a Senate Bill (SB 2449) authored by Senator Bato de la Rosa and three others (Revilla, Ejercito and Zubiri), seeking to introduce “organizational reforms” to the Philippine National Police (PNP).
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Menu Home Articles Media Reader, Join Me Why Hide, Mr. President? New trips to “strengthen” old investments? Sept. 25-Oct. 2, 2023 Why does PBBM go to such great lengths to hide the fact that he is an ardent fan of the Formula 1 (F1) Grand Prix races in Singapore, and will do almost anything
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Menu Home Articles Media Reader, Join Me The PNP, Through the Eyes of the PNP SubTitle September 18-24, 2023 “For CY 2022, the manpower complement of PNP totaled 230,284 composed of 15,883 Police Commissioned Officers, 216, 989 Police Non-Commissioned Officers, 1,083 cadets and 12,212 Non-Uniformed Personnel.” — Executive Summary of the COA’s 2022 Audit
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You see, Reader, there is no such thing as “the price of rice in the world market”, as quoted above….PLUS, the latest FAO Rice Price Update came out on Sept. 8, one day after the Romualdez press release. It shows that the August rice price indices were higher compared to those in July, and even higher compared to August 2022:
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And do you know, Reader, that in August. 2018, the average retail price of rice was P44.66. Yes. The price of rice 5 years ago was higher than the price of rice now, which has alarmed our government so much that they are calling for a price ceiling.
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We took on Marcos, with his martial law, his dictatorship, his human rights violations, his cronies. We kicked them all out – and took our country back.
“Never again”, we swore.
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