By offering too much favor to retired officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP), President Rodrigo Duterte will soon turn his cabinet and other key positions in the government into full military control, a group warned.
In the midst of the continuing threats, intimidation, and harassments against the leaders and members of Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), the group announced it has compelled to form a mechanism that will enhance their collective strength to defend their ranks.
The city government is set to implement by the middle of 2019 the High Priority Bus Service (HPBS), a multi-million and modernized public transportation system that will help ease the traffic woes now being experienced by commuters in Davao City.
Around 200 houses were razed in a massive fire that hit Purok 4, Isla Verde, Barangay 23-C in Davao City last Wednesday, February 20 and displaced hundreds of families.
Authorities on Wednesday have dispelled reports that the hundreds of families in two highland villages in this city fled their homes due to the presence of an armed group on Tuesday night.
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the third extension of Martial Law extension in Mindanao until the end of 2019 has drawn flak from various progressive groups, calling it as “outright neglect of human rights.”
The New People’s Army (NPA) freed Private First Class Darlino Alipayo Cariño Jr. and Cpl. Eric Bulado Manangan of the Army’s 3rd Special Forces Battalion and six members of the Civilian Active Auxiliary (CAA
Families of Desaparecidos have made an appeal to the United Nation (UN), particularly to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (UN-WGEID) to keep open the 625 cases and look into more cases which have not been reported to the body.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) called for the immediate decriminalization of libel following the controversial arrest of Maria Ressa and harassment on critical news outfit, Rappler.
Gabriela Women’s Partylist Representative Arlene Brosas has called on President Rodrigo Duterte to sign the expanded maternity bill that will provide women who are working in public and private institutions and informal sectors 105 days of paid maternity leave.
