If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe via email. Thanks for visiting!While Filipino families are still coping from escalating prices of basic commodities like rice, bread and meat products and the never-ending rise of oil prices, they are once again faced by enrollment woes this month: tuition fee hikes.The Department of Education [...]
“If helping the poor is a crime, and fighting for freedom is rebellion, then I plead guilty as charged.” - Ka Bel
News reports Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran has been diagnosed as “brain dead” at the Far Eastern University hospital in Quezon City after falling from the roof of his home in Barangay Muzon Tuesday [...]
Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile bursted when I saw the news last Wednesday when Sen. Biazon was speaking in the floor in support of a resolution commending the award for outstanding Philippine soldiers of 2008 given by the Rotary Club of Makati Metro and the Metrobank Foundation Inc. The Senate Resolution No. 359 is a congratulatory [...]
What became clearer in Monday’s hearing of the Joint Congressional Power Commission (JCPC) is not the immediate reduction in power rates but the electrifying power play between the Lopezes and the government for control of Meralco.
Designed purposely to address the high cost of power in the country, the JCPC hearing was [...]
With the ongoing senate inquiry on the high cost of electricity in Metro Manila, the Freedom from Debt Coalition came out with position paper on why electricity bills are high.
The 10 reasons are:
1. The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) allows MERALCO, other distribution utilities (DUs) and the National Transmission Commission (Transco) to earn over and above [...]
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