Today’s News to Go

Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares urged candidates for the 2016 elections to discuss pork barrel issue as a top election issue.

Representative Emmi De Jesus of the Gabriela Women’s Party said President Benigno Aquino’s environmental record will be punctuated by the dumping of toxic waste from Canada in the country on his last State of the Nation Address (Sona).

Engr. Ricardo Onate Jr., project manager of the Davao Rice Processing Complex, assured that the rice milled from their facility are safe and of good quality.

A national group composed of different churches said they will launch an international campaign to assist in the plight of indigenous communities and schools in Mindanao.

A human rights group said the promotion of what they call as “present-day Palparan” Army generals by President Benigno Aquino III is an “affirmation of the regime’s policy of war against the discontented Filipino people.”