She was only eight when she started helping her father make ends meet for the family. Now 12, she still works alongside adults in Bantayan Island.
Amid the controversy surrounding the Maynilad Water Services and Manila Water, a group of cooperatives here pooled together their resources to put their own water company and serve mainly the city’s rural folk.
Bayan Muna Party-list reiterated its call to scrap the “regressive provisions” of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) as the third tranche of additional excise taxes will be implemented this 2020.
Fifteen media practitioners have been killed since President Rodrigo Duterte rose to power in 2016 — a revelation that despite his promise of change, this sector of society can’t and won’t be spared from vicious attacks.
The New People’s Army (NPA) on Sunday (Dec. 29) slammed the military for an attack in the Caraga region last Dec. 23, when the unilateral and reciprocal holiday ceasefire declared by the Duterte administration and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) took effect.
A leader of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) has asked the Philippine government and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) to remain calm amid reports of ceasefire violations allegedly perpetrated by the New People’s Army (NPA), the CPP’s armed wing.
Lifeless bodies of an elderly farmer and his son with disability were found in a field in a peasant community in Brgy. Kapatagan, municipality of Laak in Davao de Oro (formerly Compostela Valley) province.
Members of the New People’s Army (NPA) are observing the unilateral and reciprocal ceasefire being declared by Pres. Rodrigo Duterte and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), but they won’t hesitate to engage state forces if attacked, a spokesperson of the New People’s Army (NPA) said Thursday (Dec. 26).
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in Southern Mindanao denounced Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio’s statement calling on the national government to exclude Davao City from the Duterte administration’s ceasefire declaration and the forthcoming resumption of peace negotiations with the NDFP.
Moro human rights group Suara Bangsamoro called for an independent investigation on the recent bombings in Cotabato City and neighboring municipalities in Cotabato and Maguindanao that happened as the extended martial law is about to expire on December 31.
