IBON Media & Communications
Assert People’s Rights; Resist Tyranny and Terror
July 4, 2020
Duterte’s Pandemic Borrowing
June 30, 2020
The Duterte administration’s foreign borrowing has continued to rise during the pandemic. How much is really to respond to COVID-19, and how much for debt-driven growth and the illusion of development?
Gov’t should check SAP’s gross failure as COVID cases rise – IBON
June 30, 2020
The Duterte government should correct the huge shortfall of the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) especially amid a continuously increasing number of COVID-19 cases. About 9 million out of the target 18 million poor households received only one tranche of emergency aid, or just Php53 per day over 106 days of COVID-19 lockdown.
Open-air jeepneys safer against COVID-19 than enclosed modernized counterparts
June 21, 2020
NEWS
With only modernized jeepneys allowed to resume operations next week, traditional jeepneys off the road inconveniences commuters and also denies them potentially safer means of transport. The traditional open-air jeepney is likely even safer against COVID-19 than its air-conditioned modernized counterpart.
70k jeepney driver sa NCR nawalan ng kita (Abante)
June 21, 2020
