After thousands of farmers blocked the Davao-Cotabato national highway in Kidapawan City on early Wednesday to demand rice distribution to drought-affected families, the International League of People’s Struggle has called on the government to mobilize its resources and address the farmers’ demands.
Many of the protesting farmers who put up a barricade in the national highway of Davao-Cotabato in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato province sprawled on the streets 12 hours after they blocked the road paralyzing traffic in the whole stretch of Quezon Boulevard in Kidapawan City.
An estimate of 5,000 farmers from eight municipalities of North Cotabato province blocked the national highway in Kidapawan City early morning on Wednesday, March 30 to demand for rice from the provincial government to help them survive the drought.
The spokesman of presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte is up against the Liberal Party spokesperson on the controversial comics of LP standard-bearer Manuel Roxas II.
Labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno said the comic strip depiction of presidential aspirant Manuel Roxas II as a hero during typhoon Yolanda is “a lie that no Filipino believes”.
An Army official reported on Monday, March 28 that the large portion of the fire in the country’s highest peak is located within the side of North Cotabato.
NDF Mindanao spokesperson Maria Malaya explained that based on the principle of guerilla warfare “the NPA does not establish permanent camps or structures.”
Bayan Muna Representative Carlos Isagani Zarate said “calling the Muslims of Mindanao with the highly derogatory term “mananakop” did not only show the chauvinist attitude of Mar Roxas.”
Nestor Gimenez, BFP XI chief of operations division, said their office has recorded 147 cases of fire accidents in the city since the year started.
Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimente, president of PDP Laban, said Binay was acting “prima donna”.
