The Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives filed on Monday House Bill No. 7787 entitled “An Act Establishing a National Minimum Wage for Private Sector Workers and Imposing Stiffer Penalties for Violations Thereof, Amending for this purpose the Labor Code of the Philippines.”
Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio has ordered environment officials to closely monitor illegal operations of sand and gravel quarry operation.
“We will stand firm beside Sister Pat!”
National Democratic Front of the Philippines chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison invited President Rodrigo Duterte to a meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam to resume the peace negotiations.
The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in region 11 said the selected Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representative (IPMR) lacks the mandatory genealogical qualification and cannot be installed into office.
Communist Party of the Philippines founding chairperson Jose Maria Sison shrugged off President Rodrigo Duterte’s threat to kill him if peace talks between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) fail.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has assured that it will remain in the war-ravaged Marawi City to extend humanitarian aid to the internally displaced persons (IDPs) until the situation there has returned to normal.
Various groups expressed dismay over the recommendation of the bicameral conference committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate to proceed with the implementation of the National Identification (ID) system in the country.
Australian activist Sister Patricia Fox is not backing down after the Bureau of Immigration (BI) reaffirmed on Wednesday its order to forfeit her missionary visa and to have her deported on May 25.
The Commission on Audit (COA) has flagged the Davao City government’s millions worth of unrecognized infrastructure assets, other questionable records and transactions, and zero utilization rate of particular funds.
