Senators ask PNP: Why use firearms during dispersal?
Senators who led a Senate inquiry here over a violent dispersal of farmers’ barricade in Kidapawan City last week said police forces should not have brought firearms during the bloody operation.
BEACHCOMBERS. Islanders in Davao del Norte’s Samal City gather shells for food, just before the sun disappears out of sight from the sky. (davaotoday.com Photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Government mulls overhead distribution line for Samal Island
Government is considering an ?over-head distribution line as an option for power-isolated resort Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos), the Energy Regulation Commision (ERC) said on Thursday, April 7.
Escudero proposes P1-T budget as economic relief for Mindanao
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.
‘We were treated like animals’ – woman tells Senate hearing on Kidapawan carnage
Arlyn Oti Aman, was among the thousands of farmers who went to Kidapawan City hoping they will get rice from the provincial government.
Probe team finds whitewash, complicity of Aquino administration in ‘Kidapawan massacre’
An independent fact-finding mission concluded that there was an attempt to whitewash and cover-up the violent police dispersal of farmers protest here on April 1, Friday.