The tribal representative to the City Council here on Tuesday, urged the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to investigate complaints of abuse relating to their land in the northwestern part of this city.
Authorities have arrested on Thursday morning Councilor Sergio Batistis, Jr. of Albuera, Leyte after selling fake receipts of the Philippine Councilors League in a mall here.
The City Council approved during its regular session on Tuesday the proposed resolution enacting an ordinance that will ban mining activities here.
Long-time farmers living in the University of the Philippines Mindanao campus now face total eviction with the imminent construction of an P8-billion sports complex in their area.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte expects the new representative for the indigenous people in the city to talk with the New People's Army whose members in the countrysides are mostly IPs.