Militant lawmakers regretted the Sleman District Court’s decision to reject the second case review request on Monday that would have stayed the execution order of the overseas Filipino worker Mary Jane Veloso.
The Philippine chapter of the International League of People’s Struggles said President Benigno Aquino III “cannot wash his hands off the government's bungling of the case of Mary Jane Veloso.” Veloso was allegedly wrongly accused of drug trafficking from Malaysia to Indonesia.
The Department of Agriculture XI (DA) said on Monday that it has readied necessary interventions to mitigate the effects of the long dry season brought about by the El Niño phenomenon in the region.
Militant workers marched to US embassy on Saturday to call for the immediate pull out of American troops as the country commemorates the third month of the Mamasapano incident.
The City Council of Tagum has installed its second Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representative (IPMR) on Monday.