Former Bayan Muna Party-list representative Neri Colmenares criticized the online reports spreading over the weekend, linking him to a former Cebu beauty queen who was arrested by authorities in a drug busts on Saturday in Kamputhaw, Cebu City on Saturday.
Just before the year ends, the 18th Council of the Sangguniang Panlunsod approved in the third and final reading the proposed P8.8 billion budget of the city.
Resolving tribal disputes will soon be placed under the Council of Elders of the Indigenous Cultural Community when the City Council here would approve the proposal of the Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representative (IPMR).
The Philippines once again landed on top among the 21 countries tagged as dangerous for farmers, farm workers, indigenous people, and other activists resisting land and resource-grabbing.
The Salugpongan Council denied on Tuesday that it has links with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA).