The Phil. Drug Enforcement Agency-10 (PDEA-10) has identified 22 more village officials in Northern Mindanao on its “narco-list” as the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections heat up in the run up to the May 14 local election.
President Rodrigo Duterte’s inclusion in TIME Magazine’s Asia Edition as one of the world’s “strongman” leaders was criticized by human rights groups here and in the international community.
President Rodrigo Duterte declared on Friday an incremental salary increase to public school teachers.
The indigenous people of Southern Mindanao has defended Sr. Patricia Fox from the Bureau of Immigration’s cancellation of her missionary visa based on a decision last Monday of a three-man panel headed by BI Commissioner Jaime Morente.
As it commended the workers who showed up in a unity rally on Labor Day, the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) also criticized President Rodrigo Duterte for issuing Executive Order No. 51, a measure which it said failed to stop and legalized the practice of contractualization in the country.
The recent post made by former Davao City Vice-Mayor Paolo “Pulong” Duterte has caught the attention of the labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno – Southern Mindanao Region (KMU-SMR), which reacted strongly to it.
Journalism in the country, under the term of President Rodrigo Duterte, is a dangerous endeavor, with a number of the members of the press under constant threat and restrictions by agencies of government.
Many Filipinos may be open to amend the 1987 Philippine Constitution sometime in the future, but majority expressed their opposition if such charter change is effected now.
A human rights group condemned the alleged ongoing assault, particularly by government, on the members of the press in the Philippines, in time for the commemoration of World Press Freedom Day, May 3.
Almost half of the population of the drug reformists under the Community-based Rehabilitation and After Care Program (CBRAP) has dropped out of their rehabilitation program in Davao City.
