Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte turned over 54 multicabs and 86 motorcycles to barangay executives here on Monday along with a clear message to the officials: the vehicles are meant for “public service.”
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, warned the brains behind an alleged black propaganda that is “fabricating” a drug laboratory to discredit the city’s anti-drug drive and his family members who are running for public office this year.
Eight persons were killed when government soldiers and members of a tribal militia engaged New People’s Army guerrillas in separate clashes on January 15-16 in Prosperidad town in Agusan del Sur.
Election time or not, posting on trees is prohibited, the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) reminded politicians and supporters.
As their form of protesting against President Benigno Aquino III’s veto of House Bill 5842, a bill seeking for the P2,000 increase in pension of Social Security System members, women from various sectors here held a flash mob in front of the SSS regional office Tuesday.
Bishops of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente from South Central Luzon believed that mining, militarization in Lumad communities and the stalled peace talks between the government of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines are the reasons why the killings of indigenous peoples in Mindanao continue.
The tandem of presidential and vice presidential aspirants, Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Alan Peter Cayetano vowed to launch a crackdown on illegal fishing and to push the development of a Mindanao railway system.
Councilor Leah Librado of the first district here expressed her support for the calls for Congress to override President Benigno Aquino III’s veto to pass the law seeking for a P2,000 pension hike for members of the Social Security System.
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) XI warned government employees against showing their support for a certain candidate in the May elections.
This city’s police cheif, Senior Superintendent Vicente Danao Jr., is likely to continue serving his term after the January 10 election prohibition of movement of personnel although Danao already exceeded his tour of duty.
