Archive for May, 2008

IT is still more than a week before classes open in most schools, but Naga City officials are already waiting for a report card of sorts. As soon as all the enrollment figures are in for the Camarines Sur city's 29 public elementary schools, it will be...

A NETWORK of national media organizations on Wednesday assailed on the decision of the Cebu Court of Appeals to indefinitely stop the prosecution of the suspected masterminds in the 2005 murder of journalist Marlene Esperat in Sultan Kudarat, southern...

GIVING birth is no easy task. In fact, some say that it's the greatest pain a woman will ever experience. Hence the truism that once a woman gets pregnant, one foot is already in the grave. What is true is that far too many women in the Philippines...

May 28, 2008 · Posted in: i Report Features

Waterless world

TRY not to go through one day without drinking water and you’ll understand why there are people who dig up even their own backyards in a vain attempt to find water. That’s what residents in a remote island down south had been reduced to doing for...

The Supreme Court decision upholding the executive privilege invoked by Romulo Neri on three key questions asked of him by senators abruptly put an end to the Senate investigation on allegations of bribery and overpricing that attended the government's...

May 25, 2008 · Posted in: 2007 Elections, Media

Political ads up close

This post was written by Pamela Ordoveza, a senior mass communication student who is earning her summer internship credits with the PCIJ. IT'S still a good two years to the 2010 elections but the reported presidential frontrunners are already beginning...

The Supreme Court decision upholding the executive privilege invoked by Romulo Neri on three key questions asked of him by senators abruptly put an end to the Senate investigation on allegations of bribery and overpricing that attended the government's...