Mayor Allan Rellon ordered the Lapanday Foods Corporations security guards to stop attacking farmers after a second shooting incident transpired inside the contested banana plantation area in Barangay Madaum here.
Antonio Tuyak, 61, has been a farmer for the last 35 years before the land he was tilling got into a land dispute with Lapanday Foods Corporation.
The Communist Party of the Philippines is calling all Filipinos to join in their “peace rallies” across the country to demonstrate the people’s unity for a “just and lasting peace,” coinciding the Party’s 48th anniversary.
Barely a week before Christmas, the Eastern Mindanao Command here announced that at least 700 military personnel will be deployed to secure Davao city all throughout the holiday seasons.
The Davao City Police Office claimed Wednesday it was nearing completion of its anti-illegal drug campaign “Oplan Tokhang” with police visiting 12,000 houses of suspected drug users and pushers in a span of six months since President Rodrigo Duterte ordered its implementation.
The government peace panel urged the Filipino migrants to participate in the third round of peace talks with the communist group as both groups are tackling essential issues on socio-economic reforms.
US ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim commiserated with the families, survivors, and the victims of the Roxas night market bombing during his visit at the blast site here Wednesday afternoon.
Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano ordered Tuesday its regional and provincial officials to probe the shooting of farmer-beneficiaries in Madaum, Tagum City.
The government peace panel announced it will release the sick and the elderly prisoners before Christmas, allaying fears that the ongoing peace negotiations with the communists will collapse.
Around 300 students and faculty members of the Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology (CFCST) walked out of their classes on Tuesday morning and marched to push for the removal of school president Dr. Samson Molao.
