A peace advocate group is urging President Rodrigo Duterte to talk with government peace negotiators.
“There was no NPA attack last February 15 against an AFP-escorted relief operations in Barangay Linunggaman, San Francisco, Surigao del Norte,” the CPP said in a statement Friday.
National Antiv-Poverty Commission Lead Convenor Liza Maza said Duterte’s interest to meet with them means: “He is intent on hearing our views, he is open to hearing us out.”
Senior Superintendent Armando de Leon, Compostela Valley Police provincial director, said operations have netted eight arrests on the first days of the campaign, saying the each municipality have incidents concerning illegal gambling.
Without mentioning Senator Trillanes’ name, Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte called the senator “ugok” (stupid) and described the allegation as “wild accusations.”
Two soldiers were killed and 17 others were wounded in a series of armed encounters with New People’s Army guerrillas in northern Davao City on Thursday.
Solicitor General Jose Calida, a former Justice assistant secretary, said a Supreme Court decision “should prevail over the Jasig as basis on the order to rearrest the National Democratic Front of the Philippines who were granted temporary liberty last year to join the peace negotiations.
The Committee on Public Information in Congress approved the Freedom of Information bill of which it consolidated 35 proposed measures embodying the right of information in the 1987 Constitution.
The National Union of Peoples Lawyers hit out the series of attacks against lawyers and judges in the wake of government’s “war on drugs.”
An official of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau in the Davao region criticized the cancellation of the 75 mining agreements saying the move contradicted President Rodrigo Duterte’s goal towards industrialization.
