VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Sin taxes for health and livelihood explained
The sin tax law also entitles local government units a 15 percent share in revenues.
Yearly Archives: 2019
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: The proposed changes to the Juvenile Justice Law
As the Senate gears to deliberate on the counterpart bills filed in its chamber, here are things you need to know about the Juvenile Justice Law and the proposed changes.
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Mga ipinanukalang pagbabago sa Juvenile Justice Law
Sa CICL na mas bata pa sa kriminal na responsableng edad.
A (post)modern-day Vandal contra the Church
President Rodrigo Duterte’s vituperation against the Roman Catholic Church is unprecedented in recent Philippine political history. Not even the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s record matches it.Yet, in a predominantly Catholic country, his outrageous display of irreligiosity appears to perturb only a few.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Youth commission chair mali sa patakaran ng gobyerno sa kapayapaan
Ang mga pahayag ni Cardema ay maling pagpapaliwanag ng Executive Order 70, ang patakaran umano ng gobyerno sa mga bagay na may kinalaman sa CPP-NPA.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte mali ang pahayag tungkol sa solar, wind energy
Pinasisinungalingan ng datos ng gobyerno ang mga pahayag ni Duterte.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte makes false claims on solar, wind energy
President Rodrigo Duterte, ranting about international oil prices, made two false claims about solar and wind energy use in the Philippines.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Youth commission chair gets gov’t peace policy wrong
Ronald Cardema misrepresents EO 70.
Save our children
Many of us have resigned to our fate of having Duterte as president until June 30, 2022. We will survive, we tell ourselves. But not many of our children.
Gloria Arroyo: Astute as ever
Take note at how Gloria Arroyo, speaker of the House of Representatives, maneuvered on the controversial bill lowering the minimum age of criminal liability from age 15 which is in the existing law to originally, nine years old and finally 12.
