DAVAO CITY — As many as 444 barangays (villages) in the Southern Mindanao region have been classified as among so-called “areas of immediate concern” this election season.
The police in the region reported 38 percent of the villages in Southern Mindanao, including those in three cities and 44 municipalities, are affected by armed and election-related threats.
Below is the statement of Dr. Alberto G. Romulo, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines, on United States Peace Corps Volunteer Julia Campbell:
On behalf of the Filipino people, I wish to express my most heartfelt sympathies to the family of United States Peace Corps volunteer Julia Campbell.
MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is extending the Philippine government?s “full cooperation” in the United States ongoing investigation on the circumstances that led to the death of US Peace Corps volunteer Julia Campbell.
Press Secretary and concurrent Presidential Spokesperson Ignacio R. Bunye said in a statement this morning the President “is saddened” by the death of the Peace Corps worker.
The Arroyo administration consistently asserts that voting for its candidates will mean an improvement in the economy. But will this election really put an end to poverty?
One for Grecil. Some 300 residents of New Bataan, Compostela Valley province, held an unprecedented demonstration in their town on Wednesday to denounce the killing Grecil Buya and the militarization…