Starting on January 15, the Davao City Police Office would deploy 1,000 personnel to secure the areas to be used by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, while another 400 police forces would secure some 40 Ms. Universe candidates.
The Bureau of Fire Protection here recorded 486 fire incidents last year.
All police station commanders in the city are in full alert status in the wake of a jail attack in North Cotabato district jail early morning of Wednesday.
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said the problem on deciding to raise the Social Security System pension of retirees should not be passed on to President Rodrigo Duterte.
The city government here is mulling to extend a financial aid for another province in the typhoon-struck Visayas.
A militant partylist group slammed three cabinet secretaries of the Duterte administration for “junking and sabotaging” Congressional measure that would grant the immediate Social Security System pension increase of P2,000 effective this month.
The New People’s Army, armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, said communities across the country are clamoring to end the truce with government because the military continued to commit violations of the ceasefire declaration.
Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza said the names of 21 individuals who will comprise the new Bangsamoro Transition Commission will be announced come January next year.
The city government here will extend P11 million financial aid to the victims of typhoon Nina (international name: Nock-Ten) that hit Luzon and several parts of the Visayas region.
When the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the National Operational Command of the New People’s Army issued an indefinite ceasefire back in August 28, the communist rebels across the country took the opportunity to do more productive tasks on their assigned units.
