President Arroyo on Monday ordered the Department of Social Welfare and Development to accommodate youth offenders in its 30-year-old National Training School for Boys in Tanay, Rizal so that they could continue their studies and even engage in livelihood programs while in jail.
Filipino Americans in the US yesterday launched Text Brigade Against Cheating and Killings (Text Back USA), a campaign for clean elections and in support of Kabataan Party and other party-list bets.
Akbayan party-list held a “fun run” last Sunday at the UP Academic Oval to call for a credible and peaceful elections on May 14.
The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to immediately disclose and release the names of the nominees of party-list groups or organizations accredited to participate in the party-list elections on May 14.
Genuine Opposition senatorial candidate Loren Legarda lauded yesterday efforts of the youth sector in the Philippines to get representation in the next Congress after coming some 40, 000 votes short of landing a party-list seat in the House of Representative in 2004.
Youth in Los Baños, Laguna today used art to call for the young Filipinos to “cast a vote for the environment” in the coming elections.
Ang Kapatiran senatorial candidates: Adrian O. Sison, Martin D. Bautista, and Zosimo Paredes (Photo courtesy of Ang Kapatiran)
An interfaith group will lead a prayer rally for an honest, peaceful and credible elections, said Nandy Pacheco, founder and secretary-general of Ang Kapatiran national political party.
The rally will also pray for the victory of the principles [...]
The Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment today said dangerous and large-scale commercial mining continues to damage the island of Rapu-Rapu in Albay and the surrounding waters of Sorsogon.
Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno has challenged today’s youth to share the burden of safeguarding the country’s national security and the obligation of protecting human rights.
The Kabataan Partylist has criticized Arroyo and TEAM Unity’s new political gimmick for its candidates, saying the administration slate’s memory aid should have been ‘SASAMA PA KIDZ MOR’.
