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Continue reading →: A national loss
The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) is holding a tribute today (September 20) to honor the memory of the prominent, respected and treasured human rights lawyer Attorney Romeo T. Capulong. Ka Romy passed away last September 16 at the age of seventy-seven. In its official statement, Bayan described Ka Romy a…
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Continue reading →: No overpricing? Oil review, as usual
As expected, the Independent Oil Price Review Committee (IOPRC) set up by the Department of Energy (DOE) has cleared the oil companies of overpricing and accumulating excessive profits. DOE officials, of course, were very happy with the findings as they affirmed the position of the department that local pump prices…
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Continue reading →: Greed amid calamity
The country’s largest and most profitable firms are oblivious to the devastation being wrought by torrential rains on Metro Manila and various provinces in Luzon. Displaying barefaced greed, oil companies led by Petron Corp. hiked their pump prices, the fifth round in as many weeks since July. Then, the Manila…
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Continue reading →: Sona and high prices
The third State of the Nation Address (Sona) of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III lasted 1 hour and 39 minutes. It was his longest Sona so far. But the 8,890-word speech never made reference to the perennial problem of consumers – the ever rising costs of electricity, petroleum, water and…
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Continue reading →: Sona 2012: Aquino’s failure to ease poverty and provide social services
Part III: Reviewing Aquino’s “Social Contract” and performance Read Part I: On job creation here Read Part II: How the rich is getting (scandalously) richer here Two of the most important commitments Aquino made in his so-called Social Contract are the provision of social services, specifically education and health; and…
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