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Ay abaw! Maan lang dyan kaninyo, Bernardo! Dali dlang mahuman ni Board Member Mitch Monfort-Bautista ang draft Sanitation Code of Yrong-Yrong. The Miagao Church, a world heritage (web photo) Tungod kadya, daw madalasa gid pinalangga ta nga banwa hay ang merkado publiko na kadya luwas nga higku, nagaserbi man mismo nga slaughter house. Ang Provincial Sanitation Code sobra pa ka istrikto sangsa PD 856 o Sanitation Code of the Philippines. Sa presidential decree tana, ang mga slaughterhouses kinahanglan indi magrapit ti 25 metros sa mga panimalay pero ang ordinansa tana ni Monfort, singkwenta metros gid! Sa ordinansa ni Monfort, ang slaughterhouse, ilabi na ang higku na kadya, ginakabig nga "source of contamination", por eso, ibutang sa marayu -- 50 metros halin sa mga pamalay, kalan-an, eskwelahan, simbahan, munisipyo, kag merkado publiko. Ang aton tana sa ginharian ni Datu Maknapul, rigyan mismo sa sulod kang merkado publiko ang irihawan kag a...

AY, BERNARDO, maan dulang kanimo dyan! Our brothers and sisters are exposed to public health risks from an abbattoir that operates right in the heart of the mercado publico. Miagao Plaza (web photo) The Sanitation Code of the Philippines or Presidential Decreee 856 considers abbattoirs "points of contamination", thus, must be established at a distance from residential areas and restaurants, eateries or areas where food is prepared or processed. Chapter IV of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of PD 856 requires that abbattoirs must at least be 25 meters away from markets and food establishments, and at least 200 meters from residential areas, churches and places of public assembly, funeral establishments, courts or public office. Ano dulang ra, bay, hay ang slaughterhouse kang banwa kang Miagao rigyan gid sa tunga kang merkado ta? Kag ang sewer kang liquid kag solid wastes na kadya rigyan man ginapailig sa draineage canals kang merkado kag nagapanaog s...

Tablet chairs ... two rows of school chairs in various stages of disrepair and deformity line the alley between the buildings of the College of Mass Communications (CMC) at UP Diliman, Quezon City. They don't utter a word but their sight begs for questions, rather, answers. A tarpaulin streamer at the entrance of the graduate school building screams "CONDEMNED" and another in red at the gate facing the road decries the commercialization and corporatization of UP and other state-run schools. Somebody though was kind enough to explain that a group of activists, artists and educators contrived of the actor-less pantomime to protest not only against government's criminal neglect for the education of its young, but its utter depravity to hand over the Armed Forces -- who are armed, fed, housed and paid for by the people -- into the hands of foreign mining interests for the singular purpose of clearing vast lands of Mindanao for mining operations which includes, but is ...