A national organization of teachers has welcomed a new law making it non-compulsory for teachers to serve election duties while increasing benefits and protection for those who volunteer.
Author Archives: MART D. SAMBALUD
The camp of presidential candidate and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said it expects black propaganda and personal attacks against him to intensify as the campaign heads to the finish.
The peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) demanded swift delivery of “justice” to the farmers who were killed by anti-riot police after a brutal dispersal of protesting farmers in Kidapawan City.
Due to reduction of power supply caused by the effects of El Niño, and the sudden shutdown of a unit of a coal plant in Davao City, the Davao Light and Power Company started implementing a period of two to four hours of rotational power outages since Wednesday, April 6.
Independent vice-presidential candidate Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero has proposed to allocate 30 percent of the present national budget, or roughly about P1 trillion, to Mindanao as an immediate economic relief to the region should he wins in the May 9 elections.
Militant labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno in Southern Mindanao decried the strafing of a worker’s camp last Saturday, April 2 in Pantukan, Compostela Valley province.
Environmental group Panalipdan in Southern Mindanao criticized the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for wasting P7.2-billion which funded the agency’s National Greening Program (NGP).
A progressive lawmaker on Tuesday has asked the House of Representatives to investigate the violent and bloody dispersal of starving farmers in Kidapawan City last April 1.
The former wife of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte launched on Tuesday, April 5, threw her own version of support for the presidential aspirant, and is seen to be a “bittersweet” reunion for the separated couple.
The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) has expressed sympathy to the drought-stricken farmers in Kidapawan who experienced police brutality after the provincial government of North Cotabato did not heed their demand of rice subsidy.
