Members of the City Council here share different views on House Bill 4727 or the Death Penalty bill recently passed by the House of Representatives.
President Rodrigo Duterte said even as technological advances are evolving, the government should see to it that it is providing assistance to the agriculture sector.
Digressing from his prepared speech on Tuesday while addressing the agriculture stakeholders in Malacañang, President Rodrigo Duterte said Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez had a good case in her hands, and should be given credit.
The city government will construct 5,000 more housing units in two relocation areas here to keep urban poor dwellers living along the riverbanks and government roads safety far from danger zones.
Councilor Bai Halila Sudagar, an indigenous people’s representative, said she is planning to set-up a help desk for the Lumad inside the Southern Philippines Medical Center in response to the request of Davao’s IP communities.
The Philippine Commission on Women on Tuesday has called for amendments to the existing Anti-Rape Law of 1997.
The members of the House Committee on Human Rights probed on Tuesday the shooting of farmers by alleged banana plantation guards of Lapanday Foods Corporation.
Despite backlash from the mining industry, Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez on Tuesday said she remains confident that the support of the Filipino people were with her.
Executive No. 84, signed in 1999, declares March as the Rabies Awareness Month to prevent and eradicate rabies that is seen as a dangerous disease of dog transmissible to humans through the bite of an infected animal.
While it lauded Philippine President Duterte for signing the Paris Agreement, the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice said on Tuesday that it wanted more “concrete and stronger policy actions” from government to address the country’s goal to be independent from using coal.
