The Army’s 10th Infantry Division said the 15-year old Manobo student who was killed on Sunday was a victim of a retaliatory attack against the New People’s Army.
As their form of protesting against President Benigno Aquino III’s veto of House Bill 5842, a bill seeking for the P2,000 increase in pension of Social Security System members, women from various sectors here held a flash mob in front of the SSS regional office Tuesday.
Bishops of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente from South Central Luzon believed that mining, militarization in Lumad communities and the stalled peace talks between the government of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines are the reasons why the killings of indigenous peoples in Mindanao continue.
A member of the paramilitary group, Alamara, allegedly killed a Grade 3 Manobo student in Barangay Palma Gil, Talaingod, Davao del Norte afternoon on Sunday, a child rights group reported.
The tandem of presidential and vice presidential aspirants, Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Alan Peter Cayetano vowed to launch a crackdown on illegal fishing and to push the development of a Mindanao railway system.
Councilor Leah Librado of the first district here expressed her support for the calls for Congress to override President Benigno Aquino III’s veto to pass the law seeking for a P2,000 pension hike for members of the Social Security System.
President Benigno Aquino III’s veto on the Social Security System pension hike bill sent bad quivers for many pensioners here on Thursday.
On the dawn of January 15, farmlands of the family Villavicencio and the Sitio Nursery of Barangay Ngan in Compostela were reported to have been bulldozed by the controversial mining company operating in the area.
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) XI warned government employees against showing their support for a certain candidate in the May elections.
This city’s police cheif, Senior Superintendent Vicente Danao Jr., is likely to continue serving his term after the January 10 election prohibition of movement of personnel although Danao already exceeded his tour of duty.
