The National Democratic Front’s negotiating panel categorically said that it had not requested the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to mediate in the stalled peace negotiations between them and the government.
Allowing colorum operators and tricycles to do their business in this city is against the law.
The striking workers and management of a radio station signed today a memorandum of agreement (MOA) which led to the conclusion of a 43-day labor strike.
Workers of the Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) Davao said that only the charges of illegal strike filed by the company against them stand in the way of a “peaceful” culmination of negotiations that would end their nearly two months strike.
Francis Morales, environmental activist and advocate of sustainable agriculture, died Wednesday 11pm evening, November 12, due to acute lymphocytic leukemia.
Saying that their grievances were “unheard and neglected” by the national government, some 300 indigenous people, peasants, environment advocates and human rights group will travel to Manila Thursday in an activity dubbed “Manilakbayan.”
University of the Philippines in Mindanao (UPMin) students lighted candles at UP oblation circle Tuesday to “condemn the government’s incompetence in addressing the needs of the victims of typhoon Yolanda.”
On November 8, survivors all over the country marched the street from Tacloban Convention Center up to Rizal Avenue. Muddied cultural workers from northern Samar posed in a streetplay.
Over 20,000 survivors from different man-made and natural calamities gathered in the city by way of an ecumenical prayer and march rally at the Rizal avenue to mark the commemoration of 1st year anniversary of Supertyphoon Yolanda last November 8.
Police nabbed a fugitive killer here Tuesday evening a week after he was charged of two counts of murder.
