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.
A progressive party-list lawmaker on Wednesday downplayed as “misleading” and “deceptive” the Office of the Solicitor General’s (OSG) defense that the government’s P200 financial aid was enough to guard poor Filipino families against the inflationary impacts of the Duterte administration’s tax reform program.
The Philippines National Police in Davao region has recommended 251 villages to be placed under the Election Watchlist Areas or EWAS for the 2018 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Elections.
Three major labor federations march alongside each other in the streets here on May 1 to denounce President Rodrigo Duterte’s failure to fulfill his campaign promise to stop any form of labor-only contracting in the country.
Around 3,000 workers from all over Southern Mindanao eventually made it the protest march here on Labor Day despite holding for hours the throng of mostly plantation workers in a highway in three provinces in the Davao Region.
There is no need for Pres. Rodrigo Duterte to sign an executive order (EO) or for Congress to pass a legislation banning the illegal contractualization of workers since the same law has already been stipulated in Article 106 of the Philippine Labor Code, a labor group leader said on Tuesday, May 1.
