Displaced residents in the cleared areas of this city have already returned to their homes, said the deputy commander of Joint Task Force Ranao on Thursday, October 19.
Two members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) were killed and five soldiers were wounded in the latest clashes between them in Maguindanao on Thursday afternoon, October 19.
A group of Marawi residents are planning to file a class suit against the government for the destruction of the city’s properties and the deaths of civilians due to the conflict between state forces and local terrorists.
Roseno Mabale, 42 has been a school janitor for half of his life. He started working as a school janitor the Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU) in 1996 under a service provider and he remembered it was on March 16, 1997 when an area was assigned for him to clean inside the campus of ADDU along Jacinto Street.
When Malacañang ordered the suspension of classes due to the transport strike, the Commission of Higher Education also ordered the suspension of classes in private higher educational institutions (HEIs) across the country.
A former soldier was killed after allegedly attempting to fight operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) here on Wednesday afternoon, October 18.
A former local chief executive of the Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS) was dismissed from government service after graft investigators found him guilty of grave misconduct after he received a cash gift of P200,000 from a multi-purpose cooperative.
The day after President Rodrigo Roa Duterte declared as liberated the embattled city of Marawi, the city and provincial government units announced they were speeding up the recovery and eventual return of displaced residents in the controlled or cleared areas.
A high-ranking military official vowed on Tuesday, October 17 to put an end to communist insurgency by the end of 2018, a statement coming right after President Rodrigo Duterte declared Marawi City “liberated” from the terrorist control.
A labor group now is calling President Rodrigo Duterte an “icon of oligarchs” after he castigated the protesting jeepney drivers for staging a two-day transport strike, an act which the president called as “rebellion.”
