Members of Congress’ Makabayan bloc condemned as “forcible and violent” the attempts to evict tribal families from a church compound here.
Lumads said that like the Army who allegedly hurt them in their villages, the police also did it to them in the city amid an attempt to force them to go home.
Local officials here intervened in the commotion inside an evacuation camp, which the Davao City Police Office raided on Thursday morning.
The police here raided early Thursday morning an evacuation camp where 700 indigenous people from Talaingod, Davao del Norte and some parts of Bukidnon province sought sanctuary for months now.
A local official from the town of Caraga in Davao Oriental has filed a resolution urging the local government to regulate the staging of lewd programs after the town’s acting mayor allegedly sponsored an event showing “sensual dancing with suggestive sexual remarks.”
Lawmakers from a women’s partylist group want higher fines and strict monitoring of toxic dumping in the country through a legislative measure.
The New People’s Army confirmed that it was holding as prisoner a government soldier and released on Thursday night a video clip of the soldier in Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental.
After the massive funeral march tribute for the slain New People’s Army commander, Leoncio “Ka Parago” Pitao, armed New People’s Army guerrillas also paid their last tribute to Ka Parago with the honorary 21-gun salute in the foothills of Mt. Apo on Sunday.
The National Democratic Front in North Central Mindanao Region announces on Wednesday that the negotiations for the release of an Army man who was held captive by the New People’s Army as a prisoner-of-war (POW) has started.
Authorities here conducted multiple search warrant operations in different areas of the city which resulted in the arrest of 39 suspects, including one minor.
