K to 12 program goal: Jobs for high school graduates
By Fernando del MundoMalacañang’s keeper of the purse once likened the Philippine education system to a frog in a kettle put to a boil.
Malacañang’s keeper of the purse once likened the Philippine education system to a frog in a kettle put to a boil.
As the nation hung on a knife-edge on Feb. 22, 1986, President Ferdinand Marcos signed a deal with an emissary of US President Ronald Reagan to keep him in power that included removing his wife, Imelda, and loyal security chief Gen. Fabian Ver, former Trade Minister Roberto V. Ongpin said in an interview with the Inquirer last week.
When the phone rang one day in May 1979, he was not to know that he would be caught in one of the most tumultuous chapters in Philippine history.
The wild tree atop a hill overlooking the bustling town of San Pedro, as well as Laguna de Bay had always fascinated the late Salvador “Doy” Laurel as he traveled the highway.
The young aide was stunned when Jaime Cardinal Sin picked up the phone and called the Church-run Radio Veritas to broadcast an appeal on the night of Feb. 22, 1986.
It is harvest time in the sugar plantations.
(Second of a series) It hasn’t been easy for peasant leader Jaime Tadeo. Tadeo remembers with a wry smile that he once asked then President Corazon Aquino for land for the farmers, but got himself instead a cell in the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City, which means tiny land in Filipino. [...]
(First of four parts) The few minutes she was allowed to talk to President Aquino in Malacañang’s stately Maharlika Hall on June 14 gave her a new lease on life. Dorita Vargas, 63, did not miss the chance to reveal how she raised her six children—all girls—after her husband abandoned her and she [...]
After an epic 26-year struggle, coconut farmers may be back to square one, unless President Benigno Aquino listens to calls that he intervene in the management of P70 billion in recovered state assets acquired with the use of taxes imposed on them during the martial law years.
There’s a sense of déjà vu in the Aquino administration’s plans for some P100 billion in recovered assets illegally acquired with funds from the coconut levy imposed during the martial law years.
Sen. Joker Arroyo compares the travails of the coconut farmers on the cusp of recovering some P100 billion in martial law-decreed tax to that of “The Little Red Hen.”
Coconut farmers are challenging newly appointed Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to put her money where her mouth is for the sake of a quarter of the Philippine population mired in poverty.
Antonio Calipjo Go was incensed when he learned in January that the venerable University of Santo Tomas (UST) had reportedly bent its rules to grant Renato Corona, the ousted Chief Justice, a doctorate in law, summa cum laude.
