An agreement aimed at encouraging the people’s involvement in allocating and monitoring the use of public fund was signed on Friday, Dec. 16 between Social Watch Philippines and other government agencies.
Author Archives: MART D. SAMBALUD
The Communist Party of the Philippines is calling all Filipinos to join in their “peace rallies” across the country to demonstrate the people’s unity for a “just and lasting peace,” coinciding the Party’s 48th anniversary.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines in Southern Mindanao said on Sunday that the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ counter-insurgency program dubbed as “Oplan Bayanihan” has displaced 35,000 and killed 36 civilians across the country since Pres. Rodrigo Duterte came into office.
For being a disaster-prone nation visited, on average, by 20 typhoons annually, the government claims to have some changes to its disaster risk reduction and management program by going into high technology.
When typhoon Bopha (locally known as Pablo) struck several provinces in Mindanao four years ago and super Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) devastated those in the Visayas three years ago, killing thousands and damaging billions of pesos worth of properties, the country’s disaster mitigation programs and relief efforts was put to a tight spotlight.
The Communist Party of the Philippines would not extend its unilateral ceasefire unless President Rodrigo Duterte ends or suspends the military’s counter-insurgency program called “Oplan Bayanihan.”
A P200 million drug rehabilitation center which will be built at Barangay Malagos by 2017 is seen to yield positive results in the city’s war against illegal drugs.
A peace advocate group here expressed doubt if the the newly-appointed Armed Forces Chief of Staff Brigadier General Eduardo Año would be able to pursue a genuine peace with the communist rebels given his track record of gross human rights violations.
Devotees of the popular Black Nazarene welcomed the replica image at the Sagrado Corazon de Jesus Parish in Apokon, this city.
Private school heads do not welcome the proposed bill that would give eight billion pesos annually to public colleges and universities.
