Bulatlat Contributors

Children should not be compromised by budget cuts. Schools should have enough guidance counselors, nurses, and support personnel.

We are people who have families to feed and not just dogs that you can shoo away. By Veronika Barbosa TACLOBAN CITY—Houses of 14 families in Barangay 88 Fisherman’s Village San Jose could be demolished after the affected residents got notices from the city government’s Fishery Law Enforcement Team (FLET). In an interview with Bulatlat, Losanto Castillo, 67, president of Tacloban Fisherfolks Urban Association, said that they have received three notices from FLET to vacate their houses.

A prototype of the future large-scale floating solar panel farm sits near Bay, Laguna and powers the nearby San Antonio Barangay Hall and basketball court. Marketed as a clean energy milestone, the proposed 2,000-hectare solar panel farm threatens to privatize vast stretches of traditional fishing grounds, potentially blocking fishing lanes, disrupt ecosystems, and effectively endangering the daily livelihoods of thousands of local fisherfolk. Photo by Josiah David Quising