President Rodrigo Duterte said it would take another president to seal a peace accord with the communists.
For seven years, excavating canals and constructing roads are what Jelbin Darantinao has done for a living. But these days his employer has taken him to a role that reminds him of how a war refuses to choose which innocent lives it would take.
Militant lawmakers criticized the action of an army unit in South Cotabato ?in tagging as “revolutionary school" a tribal school in Sitio Lamnu, Barangay Lam Afus, Banga.
The move of President Rodrigo Duterte to silence the Office of the Ombudsman and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines did not sit well with the National Union of People's Lawyers, describing such as a sign of the President’s “tyrannical tendencies.”
Several Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) in this region expressed dismay after Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) officials failed to meet their demand to release “long overdue” installation orders.