Archive | May 16, 2011

Church’s tax boycott threat benefits big-time tax evaders – Akbayan

At a time when the government is busy fighting big-time tax evaders, the call of the Catholic church hierarchy to boycott tax payments as a “form of protest” against the Reproductive Health bill will only “benefit major tax cheats”, this according to Akbayan Party, one of the leading political parties supporting the proposed bill. Akbayan [...]

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Proposed K 12 Basic Education System in the Philippines

Is the K-12 model good for the Philippine education system? by Sarah Katrina Maramag ViaPhilippine Online Chronicles The enhanced K-12 program, or the Department of Education’s (DepEd) proposal to overhaul the basic and secondary education curriculum by adding two more years to the system is arguably one of the most drastic and controversial programs of [...]

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Mingling with the Masters of Delay

After its one month hiatus from the MTRCB suspension, Willie Revillame came back with the debut of his “new” show Wiltime Bigtime yesterday, May 14. By “new”, that would mean new games and the new LED floor that they were bragging about few days before the pilot; however, the format is still much the same [...]

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