Malacañang has declared an “open house” on Monday for orphans and youth to symbolically “reclaim” the Palace for the people in commemoration of the 27th anniversary of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution.
The proposal to abolish of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) is not a matter of concern to martial law rights abuse victims who have won a $2-billion judgment from a US district court against the estate of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Twenty-six years after millions flocked to Edsa to overthrow a dictator, President Benigno Aquino III on Saturday rallied Filipinos to take action against the judiciary that, he said, like martial law was one of the “wrongs committed in the past” that needed to be corrected.
As a divided nation on Saturday marks the 26th anniversary of the 1986 “people power” uprising, President Benigno Aquino III and human rights groups on Friday appeared agreed on one thing—the historic Edsa upheaval that chased away a dictator remains an unfinished revolution.
People should stop blaming Ferdinand Marcos for the country’s woes, the late dictator’s son said on Friday as he criticized subsequent leaders for doing little to improve the lives of Filipinos.
President Benigno Aquino III has asked Congress to pass a long list of priority bills of his administration, including the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill, but he has yet to show similar and urgent support for a measure to help the very people for whom his parents had fought, according to rights abuse victims of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
One of the decayed houses abandoned by the family of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos may yet become the new home for an interactive museum devoted to the history of mining in the Philippines.
In the two decades that the cases against the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his associates have languished in the courts, the country has seen five presidents and six summer Olympics have been held.
The national government is set to clip the powers of local government units (LGUs) to grant mining permits to small-scale miners as environment officials on Thursday said they have been given definitive authority over small-scale mining operations. The officials cited a justice department opinion that small-scale mining should be governed by Republic Act No. 7076, [...]
LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte, Philippines—Even the kailian (provincemates) of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos are displeased over his burial in his home province even if he is given military honors. Vice President Jejomar Binay had recommended to President Aquino that Marcos should be given full military honors but he should be buried in his home [...]
