Drought is avoidable only if these farmers have access to water services. Poverty and hunger is preventable only if the people have the equal share and access to resources. Disaster is preventable only if the government will provide and do its obligations to its people.
A buy bust operation conducted by the Davao City Police and agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency had an armed confrontation with a suspect who was killed during the operation in Barangay 76-A Bucana here on Tuesday night, April 5.
The Davao Light and Power Co. announced on Tuesday, April 5 that it will implement two sets of 15-minute switching power interruptions on April 6 and 7 to facilitate the National Grid Corporations of the Philippines’ Preventive Maintenance Shutdown (PMS) of its Davao Substation.
The Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) passed a resolution on Thursday, March 31 to indefinitely close Mt. Apo from trekkers after a grass fire razed the peak of the mountain.
While the farmers’ demands were unquestionably just, the powers-that-be have in the instant answered them with astonishing indifference.
Under the leadership of the Regional Party Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines, all the NPA units in the region continue to show its mettle as the true army of the people by waging a protracted people’s war, gathering more and more strength from tactical offensives, agrarian revolution and base building.
Hungry farmers protested along the Davao-Cotabato national highway on Wednesday, March 30 demanding the provincial government to give them rice assistance as part of the calamity fund for those affected by El Niño in the province of North Cotabato.
Two years ago, when the two parties signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, we declared together, with courage and conviction, that a new dawn has come.
The government’s social pension program for indigent senior citizens this year has increased by P3 billion, which will increase the numbers of beneficiaries by almost half a million.
