Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus G. Dureza and peace advocate Sowing the Seeds of Peace in Mindanao welcomed the Communist Party of the Philippines’ ‘openness’ to ink a bilateral ceasefire agreement with the government if President Rodrigo Duterte decides to send the government panel to the scheduled talks on February 22-27 in the Netherlands.
The Department of Energy on Monday said the establishment of Wholesale Electricity Spot Market in Mindanao gained public support after the agency conducted two separate consultations this month in Cagayan de Oro and Zamboanga City, respectively.
Independent think tank and research group IBON said that Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte should stand firm with the decision of Department of Environment and Natural Resources to close several mining companies after it failed to pass the agency’s mining audit.
To ensure the success of the bilateral ceasefire negotiations, CPP said that the government could “help facilitate the travel of the NDFP’s ceasefire committee member and consultants.”
University of the Philippines Kappa Epsilon fraternity and sorority’s “RocKEumentary” is slated to stage an event with Young Davao Writer’s Litorgy on Feb. 24 to be held in Zero 82 Lokal at Torres St., this city.
A peace advocate group is urging President Rodrigo Duterte to talk with government peace negotiators.
“There was no NPA attack last February 15 against an AFP-escorted relief operations in Barangay Linunggaman, San Francisco, Surigao del Norte,” the CPP said in a statement Friday.
The Committee on Public Information in Congress approved the Freedom of Information bill of which it consolidated 35 proposed measures embodying the right of information in the 1987 Constitution.
The National Union of Peoples Lawyers hit out the series of attacks against lawyers and judges in the wake of government’s “war on drugs.”
Two government soldiers which were held captive by the New People’s Army in Far South Mindanao as “prisoners of wars” pleaded to the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to cease its military operations because it endangers their lives.
