Monthly Archives: March 2011

In the government hierarchy, it does not necessarily follow that those higher in rank are brighter, more sensible, more competent and qualified than those occupying lower (or lowly) positions especially the elected ones. Some Barangay councilors may deserve to be in Congress much more than some of those now sitting there who may really be…

PRESS RELEASE TRADE UNION CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES                    07 March 2011 TUCP-PGEA Compound, Maharlika cor. Masaya Street, Diliman, Quezon City For inquiries please contact: ERNESTO F. HERRERA, PhD, General Secretary (Mobile: 09198621717_ ROY SENERES, SR., National Spokesperson     (Mobile: 09287886514) RAFAEL E. MAPALO, Director for Education (Mobile: (+63) 9285047052) Tel. No:…

A Filipino seafarer who suffered a slipped disk while serving aboard an international vessel has received P3.1 million in disability claims after a conciliation process.

Empowering the Filipino People MANILA, Philippines – The recent domino-like outcomes of people’s uprisings in many closed societies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), caused the collapse of the 23 year-old dictatorship of Tunisia’s President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and the 30-year regime of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak. These replicas of our…

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino has signed and endorsed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa Jr. said.

CONGRESS HAS moved to lift the ban on night work for women with the House committee on labor and employment having approved a bill seeking to lift the prohibition under the Labor Code of the Philippines in a bid to provide equal employment opportunities.

SINGAPORE – The unbridled manufacture and use of pesticides in Asia is raising the spectre of “pest storms” devastating the region’s rice farms and threatening food security, scientists have warned.

MANILA, Philippines – U.S. authorities have raised labor and intellectual property rights issues of the Philippines as deterrents to an early passage of the proposed garments and textile bill “Save Our Industries Act”, which seeks to revive the textile and garments industries of both the U.S. and the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Exporters Confederation, Inc. (PhilExport) has called for the immediate suspension of the implementation of the total log ban, citing dire consequence to the lucrative wood-based industries.

MANILA, Philippines — Good news for Filipinos with disabilities. Starting next month, they may avail themselves of a 20-percent discount on all purchases of medicines and medical supplies from all outlets of Mercury Drugstore, Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello said.

DEAR EMILY, How do you forgive a husband whom you have loved more than your life, idolized, respected, adored to high heavens? He journeyed through life with me for 35 years, vowed to love me through thick and thin, till death do us part.

MANILA, Philippines — Though they may be skyrocketing now, fuel prices will eventually slide to cheaper levels, the Department of Energy (DoE) believes.

MANILA, Philippines –  Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. has proposed to bring down the retirement age of Social Security System (SSS) members from 60 to 55 to allow them to enjoy their benefits while still at a productive age.

MANILA, Philippines – A Filipino professor won the prestigious 2011 Gallieno Denardo international physics award for his work on semiconductor optics.

MANILA, Philippines – Suspected communist rebels torched a container van owned by Dole Philippines after flagging it down in a secluded area in Surigao del Sur on Friday, the military said.

MANILA, Philippines – Wood producers holding industrial forest management agreements (IFMAs) or timber license agreements (TLAs) are appealing to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to give them more time for an orderly phase-out of their logging activities in natural and residual forests included in their contracts.

Press for enactment of new mining law “FOR more than a decade and a half, contrary to the promises of development and prosperity that comes with the enactment of the Mining Act of 1995, the Filipino people have only witnessed and become victims of the havoc that the foreign-dominated mining industry has brought to our…

NEW YORK (AP) – Oil prices rose past $104 a barrel to end the week at a 29-month high, as fighting in Libya intensified and the world’s largest petroleum consumer, the US, reported that employers added nearly 200,000 new jobs in February.

BUSINESSMEN have warned Congress that thousands may lose their jobs once plastic bag usage is banned.

MANILA, Philippines –  An anti-bribery group in the United Kingdom said yesterday corruption is a barrier to investment and distorts the economy of a country.

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In an attempt to attend the numerous requests for assistance coming from undocumented and overstaying overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), several groups of Filipino migrants join hands to work for the legalization and repatriation of about more than 2,000 undocumented and overstaying Filipino workers, mostly women, in Saudi Arabia.

The Interagency Energy Contingency Committee (IECC) was finally established yesterday as President Aquino signed Administrative Order (AO) No. 6 creating such body tasked to ensure the continuous adequate and stable supply of petroleum and other energy sources in the country.

Nurses organizations in the country haves joined lawmakers in criticizing the practice of collecting fees from nursing students doing volunteer work in government and private hospitals.

MANILA, Philippines – Sales of locally manufactured vehicles (LMV) went up by 18 percent in 2010 when compared to the previous year as the local automotive industry continues to improve.

Due to DepEd’s failure to update GSIS records of employees ABOUT 198,000 teachers and employees of the Department of Education may lose their pension fund credits with the Government Service Insurance System. This is because the DepEd failed to meet the deadline set by the GSIS to reconcile and update the service records of its…

Last week, we started identifying “gender insensitive” crimes punished under the Revised Penal Code (RPC). I received a kind text from former Cadiz City Mayor Bing Guanzon congratulating me for writing about the issue. She said this was timely given the 100th anniversary of the International Woman’s Day which we will be celebrating on Tuesday,…

MANILA, Philippines – Human and drug trafficking, corruption, and investment scams have remained the principal sources of criminal activities in the Philippines, according to the 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report released yesterday.