About 60 high school students from this city and neighboring towns were brought to a municipality in Lanao del Sur purposely to register for the coming elections under fictitious names on Friday, police said Saturday.
The province of Misamis Oriental is hopeful it will bag the prestigious Best Tourism-Oriented LGU award next month, claiming it has an advantage amongst other contenders.
A former municipal mayor in Camiguin province who was arrested Wednesday night will be transported to Metro Manila and will be turned over to the Sandiganbayan, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-10 (CIDG-10) said Thursday.
Despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement that his administration will never go back to the negotiating table with the National Democratic Front and its political wing the Communist Party of the Philippines, a Roman Catholic Church leader has remained optimistic the impasse will be broken as he urged both sides to reconsider the revival of the peace talks.
A leader of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) in Northern Mindanao has become the latest victim of red-tagging as she was branded as a “Communist teacher.”