Liberal Party senatorial candidate Leila de Lima opposed the position of presidential candidates, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Grace Poe who said they favor to bring back death penalty during the second presidential debates held in Cebu City on Sunday, March 20.
Vice presidential candidate Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero has called on the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to conduct a survey in El Niño-hit areas to determine if there is a need to update the current list of beneficiaries of the government’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program.
The Office of the Environmental Ombudsman has ordered local officials from seven Mindanao local government units to explain on the complaint filed against them for violating the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act.
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte vowed to disband the “contaminated” Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) if he becomes president.
As schools in the country start their graduation rites this month, two tribal schools in Surigao del Sur province held their commencement and “moving up” ceremonies in a very different venue.
The entrance and exit points in the north part of the city was totally closed for more than six hours on Friday, March 18. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
During the March 16 rally attended by an estimated crowd of 20,000, Davao Today, talked to some of the supporters of Duterte to react on the issue that some of them has been tagged as “bully” in the social media.
The camp of presidential candidate and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte branded as “desperate” the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) move to implicate Duterte in an alleged 2014 fund misuse.
Thousands of farmers and indigenous people from the region put up a barricade outside the Army’s Eastern Mindanao Command here on Friday morning, March 18 to call for the pull out of the military from the communities and schools.
Presidential aspirant, Rodrigo Duterte is cheered by his hometown crowd during the grand rally held here on Wednesday, March 16.
