Archive for January 2012
Rotten Peaches
Posted by: Ayana on: 24 January 2012
With the unfolding of the impeachment drama, almost all key government officials, led by no less than the President, have seemingly forgotten that 90% of the citizens of this country have other needs – food, shelter, jobs and education. If the President were to demand of his Cabinet and his Congress the same tenacity they [...]
Philippine Daily Inquirer
- Habitat: Youngsters build homes for a day 28 May 2011Daisielynne Reyes, 23, had to put down the can of paint she was carrying and take off her work gloves in order to talk. She needed both hands to express her thoughts in sign language.
- The other De Lima breaks MAP’s sex barrier 28 May 2011That businessman Ramon R. del Rosario Jr. was named Management Man of the Year for 2010 by the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) was no surprise to the people who follow developments on the local business scene. After all, “Boy Blue,” as his friends call the man, has been at the helm of Phinma [...]
- Rizal at 150: In visit to HK prison, he saw oppression 28 May 2011(Editor’s Note: The author is the shrine curator of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.) Human Rights activists say that incarceration in Philippine jails, no matter how brief, is in itself a death sentence, with convicts—the impoverished ones, that is—forced to live in misery and squalor. Recent statistics of the Bureau of Jail Management […]
