No comfy ride for Duterte’s TRAIN

NESTOR B. RAMIREZ 12/26/2017

Not much retort or dissent have been heard about the impending implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) which according to the government is considered as the “Duterte Express to Development” when it only…

Pro-Duterte group to campaign for change, end of poverty

Chris A. Ligan, Migeul Ernest Ermac 10/02/2017

In celebration of their first anniversary, the Kilusang Pagbabago (KP) in Cebu is organizing a gathering on Saturday to especially renew their commitment of support for the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. KP will also be launching…

USC forum tackles poverty, inequality

PR 06/13/2017

The Social Psychology Group of the University of San Carlos (USC) tackled poverty and inequality issues and the Filipino political behavior in a series of social psychology sessions at the Michael Richartz Hall of USC Talamban Campus…

Civil society groups hold protest against death penalty, EJK

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 05/08/2017

More than 100 members of different civil society organizations (CSO) in Cebu staged a protest in front of Cebu Provincial Capitol Monday morning against death penalty and extrajudicial killings. Fr. Robert Reyes, the running priest, led the…

Group warns of workers’ ‘uprising’ over country’s worsening poverty

Inquirer.net 05/01/2017

MANILA — A workers’ group warned of “an uprising among the working poor” if the government would ignore worsening poverty caused by joblessness, insufficient wages and short-term work arrangements. The Associated Labor Unions slammed the poverty and…

Boxers’ escape from poverty

Glendale G. Rosal 03/17/2017

FOR years, the Team Joeric Boxing Gym has been a refuge for young men who want to escape poverty through their blazing fists. To this day, the small, cramped gym located in Mandaue City continues to mold…

Cebu business heads expect GDP growth in 4th quarter of 2016

Victor Anthony V. Silva 01/24/2017

BUSINESS leaders in Cebu anticipated a good performance from the Philippine economy in the last quarter of 2016, ahead of the release of fourth-quarter domestic economic data this week. Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) president…

California-based university partners with USC, RAFI for programs supporting micro entrepreneurs

Morexette Erram 01/07/2017

Santa Clara University of California has collaborated with the School of Business and Economics of the University of San Carlos (USC) and the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) to design and implement programs that will helping sustain and…

Protecting Environmental Rights and their Defenders

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 12/04/2016

Miracles are provided by Nature to all of us but we haughtily take them for granted, as if our home planet owes us these services. How can we possibly exist without the air, water, land, trees, the…

Inequality, poverty, and the economy

Fernando Fajardo 12/01/2016

As we started the new administration, there had been some glee when the president mentioned in his first State of the Nation Address that he would continue the macroeconomic economic policies of the previous administration. To recall,…

The fight against poverty is doable

Fernando Fajardo 11/03/2016

The country’s poverty incidence declined significantly to 21.6% in 2015 of our population from 25.2% in 2012, and 26.3% in 2009 as reported by the Philippine Statistic Authority last October 27, 2016. The 2015 poverty incidence is…

Kalinangan Youth Foundation to hold benefit concert

PR 08/24/2016

IN its effort to alleviate poverty in Cebu, and inspired by the spirit of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo, the Kalinangan Youth Foundation Inc. (KALFI) in Cebu, a private nonstock, nonprofit foundation, is organizing its second benefit dinner-program,…

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