The current crisis affecting our agriculture sector caused by the 2024 El Niño phenomenon should no longer come as a surprise. When PAGASA issued an advisory as early as July last year, Marcos Jr. waited about half a year before issuing Executive Order 53 as a response. He delegated a Read more…
By Lorenzo Urriquia The SIM Registration Law is a recent implementation requiring every Filipino citizen to register their SIM card. In this process, each person must provide his/her own personal information to telecommunication companies and the government itself such as name, contact number, email address, home address, accounts, etc. The Read more…
To be a scientist in the Philippines is indeed difficult. What more when one aspires to be a people’s scientist? To be a people’s scientist is to go beyond doing “science for science’s sake”.
“Gintong sibuyas!” Ate Mayeth exclaimed when asked about the rising prices of onions in the past months. In the urban poor community where Ate Mayeth lives, the price of onion has more than doubled from what it’s worth. “Laki ng diperensya kumpara noon dahil sa sampung piso, makakabili ka na Read more…
We take a look at the real situation of the dolomite beach in relation to the real challenges of public health preservation in Metro Manila.
By JOSE ANTONIO A. MONTALBAN This was originally published in Bulatlat. Ramon Ang and his conglomerate San Miguel Corporation (SMC) recently made headlines on their proposed construction of Pasig Expressway (PAREX), a 19.36-kilometer elevated highway that will pass through Pasig River, interconnecting the City of Manila and Rizal province. In Read more…
By Mark Angelo C. Bucay This article was originally published in Bulatlat. The costly dumping of dolomite to the Manila Bay in the middle of a pandemic is a very grim metaphor of the sorry state of our natural resources management. It ignores the more important need of the people Read more…
By TIMOTHY JAMES L. CIPRIANO This article was originally published in Bulatlat. The Philippines’ COVID-19 daily reported cases remain high with 26,303 new cases on September 11 – the highest to date. On the same day, the National Capital Region’s 9,061 cases broke record despite the region being under a Read more…
By Jerwin Baure DENR CALABARZON released a statement on Tuesday claiming that the dismantling of “illegal” fish cages and pens in Cavite is beneficial to fisherfolk [1]. DENR recently announced plans on clearing several of these fishing structures after some of them were not able to renew their licenses due Read more…
The recent NAIA lockdown reflects the worsening sorry state of our country’s ineffective, neglected, and derelict transport system. In spite of the deafening clamor for an efficient and reliable transport system that fulfills even the most basic social and economic needs of Filipinos, the government offers half-hearted and band-aid solutions Read more…