Author: DAVAO TODAY

Party-list group Anakpawis today criticized a bill institutionalizing the government’s multibillion peso anti-poverty program, Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT).

President Benigno Aquino III on Friday issued Proclamation 1186, declaring a state of national calamity in the aftermath of Typhoon Nona (International name: Melor) that hit the Visayas and Bicol regions.

The Office of the Civil Defense-XI reported zero casualties as tropical depression Onyok made landfall in the region last December 18.

President Benigno S. Aquino III has approved the recommendation of the Department of National Defense for the unilateral declaration of the Suspension of Military Operations (SOMO) against the New People’s Army (NPA) for the Christmas and New Year holidays.