While they cannot physically support the strike of its local chapter, labor leaders from the national leadership of a labor group expressed their support via ‘selfie’ for the striking workers of Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) Davao.
The efforts to amend the country’s Local Government Code to increase the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) of cities and municipalities may not affect their actual share but changing the political system to Federalism will.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has nothing more to say but “good luck” to former House Speaker and Davao City Representative Nograles who is charged with a graft case by investigators of the Ombudsman together with other Arroyo allies.
While government expressed optimism that the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) will bring peace with a new autonomous region for Muslims in Mindanao, a group said the draft lacks its own vision to utilize its own natural resources.
Failure of seventeen negotiations with the management prompted the local media workers of a national radio network here to launch their second labor strike Thursday.
A month after he was relieved from his post, Police Senior Superintendent Vicente Danao will resume working today.
If the Bangsamoro entity in Mindanao gets enacted, federalism would ride high on its success and to be drummed up much easier on the platform that provinces continued to be neglected by the national government, Mindanao leaders said.
Dexter Ian Selebrado, 29, a peasant organizer, who was shot and wounded Monday afternoon after he attended the provincial-wide launching of People’s Initiative against pork barrel system in this city, tagged military agents and some local government officials to be the persons behind the said murder attempt.
BAYAN Hong Kong, the militant alliance of national democratic people’s organisations of Filipinos in Hong Kong and Macau SARs, said they sympathize with the Hong Kong people, “who in their desire to effect change and reforms are met with brutality and excessive use of force by the Hong Kong police.”
Moro residents interviewed by Davao Today here blasted the statement of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) which urged lawmakers to “scrutinize and debate” the proposed Bangsamoro Basic law.
