Liberal Party senatorial candidate Leila de Lima opposed the position of presidential candidates, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Grace Poe who said they favor to bring back death penalty during the second presidential debates held in Cebu City on Sunday, March 20.
Vice presidential candidate Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero has called on the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to conduct a survey in El Niño-hit areas to determine if there is a need to update the current list of beneficiaries of the government’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program.
LAPIS started when its founding members visited and performed in the communities struck by Typhoon Yolanda in the Visayas.
As schools in the country start their graduation rites this month, two tribal schools in Surigao del Sur province held their commencement and “moving up” ceremonies in a very different venue.
Thousands of farmers and indigenous people from the region put up a barricade outside the Army’s Eastern Mindanao Command here on Friday morning, March 18 to call for the pull out of the military from the communities and schools.
Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate said Senator Marcos is “not only unapologetic- even defensive” of the many sins of his father, the late President Ferdinand Marcos who declared Martial Law.
Presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte and his running mate, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano topped two student mock polls in Visayas and Mindanao.
The feeling of excitement in embarking on a new journey took over the Davaoeños who attended the Campus IDP Study in Australia and New Zealand Expo 2016 held at the Pinnacle Hotel Suites here on Tuesday, March 15.
Religious leaders and peace advocates urged candidates and voters in the May Presidential and local elections to prioritize the peace agenda in the election process.
A farmer and a village official were among the victims of an indiscriminate firing allegedly perpetrated by the military in a village in San Miguel town, Surigao del Sur on March 11.
