Movements in the co-op regulatory body

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 06/04/2018

The Cooperative Development Authority CDA which governs PH cooperatives is currently going through a period of significant changes that some officers may be living in dread in anticipation of a number of investigations being conducted in the…

Electric co-op up against powerful political forces

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 05/28/2018

I got word yesterday that members of the Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative DANECO camped out near the Malacañang Palace to get President Rodrigo Duterte to resolve the war of attrition between the forces that want to…

Co-op women smashing glass ceilings

03/26/2018

Welcoming guests and fellow Capitol workers during the 18th Provincial Women’s Congress to celebrate National Women’s Month (March 14, 2018) Cebu Governor Hilario “Junjun” Davide III had a spot-on message: big applause for women for continuing to…

Co-op believer and supporter

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 10/16/2017

Shared meals with his mother in a government hospital canteen ran by a co-operative when he was still a young boy and interaction with co-op leaders and members during the 2010 and 2013 gubernatorial campaign may not…

Co-op intervention needed in conflict zones

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 10/02/2017

October is Co-operative Month and cooperatives are stepping up to raise their visibility as a way of bringing attention to the human development work that some 20,000 cooperatives are doing through eight million members across the archipelago.…

Daunting prospects for co-ops

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 02/06/2017

Cooperatives are once again up in arms over moves in Congress to lift the tax exemption privileges enjoyed by the sector, but unlike in the previous administration when the movement overcame the test through protests waged in…

Garcia expects better deal for co-ops from Duterte

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 06/12/2016

  SAYING that the Aquino administration gave Philippine cooperatives a “raw deal,” former Deputy House Speaker and Cebu governor Pablo Garcia expects a “better deal” if not “a new deal” for PH cooperatives. Garcia said this in…

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