THE EXPENDITURE totals usually don’t quite add up and tallies from different entities don’t match. But there is no question that among those who strike it big during elections are media outfits, and the 2016 polls proved no different.
Lumad groups are pressing for the arrest of militiaman Alde “Butsoy” Salusad, the leader of paramilitary group New Indigenous Peoples Army Reform which they say is responsible for the deaths of several Lumad leaders and the subsequent mass evacuations.
A total of 68 survivors and beneficiaries of the Roxas Avenue night market blast in Davao City received livelihood assistance from the donations gathered by the city government, Friday, August 11.
Government chief negotiator Silvestre Bello III said the government peace panel is still awaiting an order from President Rodrigo Duterte to formally cut the peace negotiations with the communists.
President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his previous statements he will go down from the Presidency if any of his children is proven to have been involved in graft and corruption.
The Department of Labor and Employment said it is ready to repatriate overseas Filipino workers from Guam should conflict arise in the United States territory following the military tension between the US and North Korea.
The Department of Labor and Employment has opened its 14th one-stop center to cater to the concerns of overseas Filipino workers in a shopping mall in Davao City on Friday, Aug. 11.
The Gabriela Women’s Party urged Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III to support House Bill 1049 which mandates a regular sitting breaks for female employees in manufacturing and services sectors.
For the human rights group Karapatan, the plot to assassinate National Democratic Front of the Philippines chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison is an affront to the continuing efforts to bring just and lasting peace in the country.
The local town officials in Lanao del Sur are asking help from the regional and provincial government to help them address livelihood problems brought by the crisis in Marawi City that has dragged on to its 80th day since the siege laid by extremists started on May 23.
