SMS Text Tax: for the People or for 2010 Elections?

More funds to the education sector plus the computerization of public schools, these are some of the things that our congressmen promise to bring once the tax on text messaging is implemented. They say that it is feasible since the Philippines is the text capital of the world. The evidence of this fact is the [...]

BANTAY is a Partylist?

This must be a joke. BANTAY or Bantay Katarungan Foundation is the partylist that is being represented by the retired AFP General Jovito Palaparan. BANTAY is a partylist representing the “rebel returnees, security guards, and members of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit” (Business World Online). I did not know that security guards are one [...]