The National Operational Command of the New People’s Army has ordered all units and commands of the NPA to stay in “active defense mode” as it welcomes the declaration of the unilateral ceasefire by President Rodrigo Duterte during his State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 25.
Leaders of progressive groups from Mindanao said they talked with President Rodrigo Duterte about the agenda of the Lumads in Mindanao in a meeting the President called for them after he gave his first State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 25.
Duterte’s 10 priorities are poverty alleviation, infrastructure development, solid waste management, health, education, agriculture, tourism, transportation planning and traffic management, peace and order, and disaster risk reduction and mitigation.
The City Transport and Traffic Management Office warned motorists that authorities will now tow vehicles parked along major streets.
President Rodrigo Duterte has declared a unilateral ceasefire with the Communist Party of the Philippines in a bid to provide an environment suitable for the resumption of peace talks.
The Philippine Coast Guard here would implement more efforts to guard the coastal areas and ports surrounding Davao City from illegal drug-related activities. The PCG would also keep a special watch on Chinese vessels in ports.
This is the first time that the rally of progressive groups had no engagement with police authorities, with rallyists holding their own version of the State of the Nation Address only a few hundred meters away from Batasan Complex Monday, July 25.
Global activists who met here for the International Conference for Peoples’ Rights in the Philippines (ICPRP) said President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) should tackle peoples’ rights and peace talk, among other issues, in what they called concrete programs for the people.
President Rodrigo Duterte will deliver a “very powerful speech” this afternoon, July 25, Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said.
Two days before his first State of the Nation Address, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte signed the executive order on the Freedom of Information (FOI) here on Saturday night, July 23.
