National Democratic Front of the Philippines International Information Office Press Release 19 December 2012 They agreed to recommend to their respective principals the holding of a nationwide ceasefire from midnight…
Press Statement 19 December 2012 The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) today assailed the continuing hypocrisy and insensitivity of the Aquino government in making true to its promise to…
By CHRISTINE J. KUIZON Davao Today Magsuci said the water district office is providing free access to five faucets at their Matina office to the 35,000 lines -- households or establishments -- whose water supply has been cut off. In simple arithmetic, this would be 7,000 lines per faucet.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today As Pablo already claimed the lives of 990 individuals and damaged over PHP 21 billion in agriculture and infrastructure in the Davao region alone, Panalipdan said it is not enough to just give relief goods and help for the rebuilding of lives of affected people in Southern Mindanao. “We must also demand for justice and exact accountability from companies and government that plundered environmental resources with impunity,” Francis Morales, Panalipdan’s secretary general said.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today The ceasefire coverage, Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesman of the NPA’s Merardo Arce Command-Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command said, is extended to other parts of their regional jurisdiction which are not directly hit by typhoon Pablo to help address the said crisis especially in the more than 24 towns in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental where over 33 percent of its “revolutionary forces” live and over a million of peasants, workers, lumads and ordinary poor are affected.