Special Envoy of the Royal Norwegian Government, Elisabeth Slattum congratulated both peace panels of the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines for pushing through with the fourth round of talks which opened here Monday, Apr. 3.
A militant and a local human rights group here scored a police officer who ordered the bloody dispersal of protesting farmers in Kidapawan City last year, now appointed as Davao’s top police officer.
A newly-elected senior official of the Philippine Councilors’ League said that their 16,500-strong members have signified support to federalism and to the major programs of the Duterte administration.
The city government announced it spent P5 million in the continuing educational support to the kin of 2003 bombings of Sasa Wharf and the old Davao City International Airport.
The fourth round of the formal talks opened around 10 am Monday (4 pm Philippine time), a day late as scheduled after President Rodrigo Duterte issued his conditions before proceeding the formal talks with the communists.