2 more bills eye Kalayaan as ‘regime of islands’
TWO more bills recommending that the Kalayaan Island Groups (KIG) in the disputed Spratlys group be declared a “regime of islands” have been filed in Congress. The proposals, introduced in the […]
TWO more bills recommending that the Kalayaan Island Groups (KIG) in the disputed Spratlys group be declared a “regime of islands” have been filed in Congress. The proposals, introduced in the […]
By ELLEN TORDESILLAS DECLARING she was following President Arroyo’s order, Sen. Miriam Santiago, chair of the Senate foreign relations committee, said Wednesday she will defer action on Senate Bill […]
CEBU Rep. Antonio V. Cuenco on Monday agreed to a proposal of House Speaker Prospero Nograles to postpone action on the baseline bill on third reading until the Legislative Executive […]
THE POINTS raised by former Negros Oriental representative Herminio Teves in reaction to the VERA Files stories “Ethical lapses mark passage of biofuels law” and “Iggy Arroyo to use biofuels […]
ON YOUR April 8th issue, the article titled “Ethical Lapses Mark Ok Bio Fuels Law” allegedly written by Jessica Hermosa and Johanna Sisante, my name was mentioned as one who […]
I HAVE never denied that I am a scion from a sugar producing family. That my great-grandfather was planting sugarcane in the fields of Kabankalan, Negros almost 90 years ago. […]
THE VERA Files story, “Ethical lapses mark passage of biofuels law” written by Jessica Hermosa and Johanna Sisante, was the result of six months’ research that included gathering and reading […]
A PEASANT federation based in Bacolod City on Tuesday dared presidential brother-in-law and Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo to make good his word and place the 157-hectare family-owned Hacienda […]
PRESIDENTIAL brother-in-law Rep. Jose Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo indicated yesterday that the sugar plantation the Arroyo family owns in Negros Occidental would still be covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program […]
VERA Files maintains that its story, “Iggy to use biofuels law to evade CARP,” written by Jessica Hermosa and Johanna Sisante, is factual and accurate. The Biofuels Act of 2006 […]