Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano called on officials of the police to immediately release farmers who were arrested after a violent dispersal of a protest rally in Kidapawan, North Cotabato last Friday, April 1.
Presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte insisted that the Spratly Islands belong to the Philippines but the Davao City mayor reiterated that the country is not prepared to go to war with China.
A senate official pinned the blame on government inaction to curb the effects of El Niño as the reason why hungry farmers barricaded Kidapawan City last week.
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.
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.