North Cotabato 2nd District Governor Nancy Catamco was absolved in an Ombudsman ruling for lack of evidence on the case filed by Lumad leaders evacuating in a church compound here after the July 23 incident last year.
GERMELINA I. Taylor, Wilbert T. Lee, Danilo E. Suarez, and Teddie E. Rivera were among the 10 biggest donors of then presidential candidate Jejomar C. Binay. The four alone gave Binay P172.3 million altogether – except the money wasn’t really theirs.
For being a disaster-prone nation visited, on average, by 20 typhoons annually, the government claims to have some changes to its disaster risk reduction and management program by going into high technology.
President Rodrigo Duterte likened the peace process to playing a poker game with the release of the prisoners as his “last card”.
The progressive labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno in the Davao Region protest on Thursday to Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III’s “win-win solution” to end the practice of contractualization across the country.
Poor nutrition remains prevalent among children in this city, both government statistics and a church group here claimed.
When typhoon Bopha (locally known as Pablo) struck several provinces in Mindanao four years ago and super Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) devastated those in the Visayas three years ago, killing thousands and damaging billions of pesos worth of properties, the country’s disaster mitigation programs and relief efforts was put to a tight spotlight.
The Communist Party of the Philippines would not extend its unilateral ceasefire unless President Rodrigo Duterte ends or suspends the military’s counter-insurgency program called “Oplan Bayanihan.”
A peace advocate group here expressed doubt if the the newly-appointed Armed Forces Chief of Staff Brigadier General Eduardo Año would be able to pursue a genuine peace with the communist rebels given his track record of gross human rights violations.
Private school heads do not welcome the proposed bill that would give eight billion pesos annually to public colleges and universities.
