President Rodrigo Duterte declared on Thursday that the killings related to his administration’s drug war will continue, until the last drug lord and pusher is dead or behind bars.
Author Archives: Paulo C. Rizal
Following the beheading of German national Juergen Kantner on Sunday by the Abu Sayyaf Group in Sulu, the Department of National Defense has vowed once again to go after the ASG with the “full force of the law.”
70-year old Ric Obenza said Secretary Gina Lopez ”needs to continue what she started because the closure of mining companies should have happened a long time ago.”
The Philippine National Police has challenged the New York-based watchdog Human Rights Watch to present evidence, affidavits, and file the appropriate cases against erring policemen, if allegations of planting evidence were true.
A lay minister at the Immaculate Conception Parish in Mintal, Davao City marks churchgoers’ foreheads on Wednesday with ashes from burned palm branches used from the the previous year’s Palm Sunday mass. March 1 is the observance of the Catholics’ Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lenten Season.(Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Moro lawmakers on Wednesday condemned as “barbaric” and “un-Islamic” the Abu Sayyaf Group’s beheading of 70-year old German national Jurgen Kantner.
Militant labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno said its dialogue with President Duterte on Monday failed to break the “deadlock” between the workers and the Department of Labor and Employment on the issue of contractualization.
Members of the public transport group Transport of Southern Mindanao for Solidarity, Independence and Nationalism expressed fears of losing their means of livelihood when the Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board implements its Jeepney Modernization Plan.
Public utility jeepney drivers voice out their disapproval of the impending Jeepney Modernization program of the Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board in a protest caravan held on Monday, Feb. 27 in Davao City.(Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Thousands gather in Rizal Park, Davao City on Saturday, Feb. 25 for the “Freedom Rally Against Corruption and Drugs,” an event organized by Kilusang Pagbabago and Hugpong Federal, groups known for supporting President Rodrigo Duterte.
