The military has conducted an unprecedented count of 17,494 checkpoints in Eastern Mindanao 38 days since President Rodrigo Duterte placed the island under Martial Law.
In his typical blunt manner, Presidential son and Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte castigated in his Facebook account critics of the President who marked his first year in Malacanang Palace Friday.
Association of Community Educators Chairperson and Lumad school teacher Ramil Miguel said his group is planning to file charges of frustrated murder against Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit member Rodel Buntanlog.
Two women from Tagum City won this year’s search for Binibining Davao del Norte.
The Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front cooperation have reached another milestone as the respective representatives signed the protocol of cooperation on the anti-illegal drug operations in MILF communities.
President Rodrigo Duterte has committed an injustice against the Moro people with the continuing onslaught of the military in Marawi City, a progressive Moro organization said.
President Rodrigo Duterte’s promises of change appear to be running shy of expectations, at least for farmer leader Pedro Arnado, chairperson of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas Southern Mindanao Region.
A Lumad student holds an English textbook smeared with red paint to portray the attack against their school by paramilitary groups. The Lumad students protest outside the military’s headquarters in Panacan, Davao City on Friday, June 30. (Bhong Del Rosario/Kilab Multimedia)
The first year of the Duterte administration has been a virtual tug-of-war between those pursuing genuine and thorough-going reforms and those defending the status quo. However, it seems that in Duterte’s first year, the Right–the militarists, the imperialists’ lackeys and the neoliberals– had pulled the rope farther to their side. Essentially, while the Duterte administration has initiated some pro-people programs and policies, yet, over-all it is the same mainly pro-imperialists, neoliberal, anti-poor and repressive policies pushed by the pro-US, militarists and neoliberals in the Duterte cabinet that are dominant.
An environmental group expressed dismay on the decision of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau for reversing the mining reforms implemented by former environment secretary Gina Lopez, a day after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte concluded his first year as the country’s chief executive.
