A worker was killed while seven others sustained burn injuries on Friday after an explosion occurred inside a coconut processing company in Barangay Ma-a here.
Two progressive partylist organizations described as “government ineptitude” on its move to reduce the number of regular school days as solution to shortage of teachers and classrooms.
The New People’s Army denied that they had a hand in the killing of Laak Mayor Reynaldo Navarro saying that they have “not considered him an enemy that warrants a standing order.”
Laak town Mayor Reynaldo Navarro was declared dead-on-arrival in a private hospital after his convoy was attacked this morning in Asuncion, Davao del Norte.
An embarrassment to Tagumenyos.
“No guarantee of right.” — This is the ominous message of an international alliance of labor rights groups to workers in countries, the Philippines included, which were rated as the world’s worst places to work.
Residents here have started publicly airing their worry over the plan of private hospitals to bill in full the patients’ hospital expenses leaving the patients to collect by themselves the reimbursements from the office of the Philippine Health Insurance Commission (PhilHealth).
A former mayor is implicated by a human rights group’s report on “death squad” killings in Tagum City that felled around 300 people in the past four years.
Disaster preparedness marked the annual Brigada Eskwela or the nationwide school maintenance week Monday.
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said he was at first hesitant to help a soldier recently held by the New People’s Army when he learned that the Prisoner of War (POW) was involved in illegal logging and drug use.
