Four days to go before the start of the overseas absentee voting, an OFW leader urged registered overseas absentee voters (OAV) to vote starting April 9.
A peasant group on Friday scored the “insensitive and unsympathetic” remark of administration bet Manuel “Mar” Roxas over the brutal and bloody Kidapawan massacre.
The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (RDRRMC) appealed to the public to provide more food provision, water and volunteers to help out in quelling the grassfire in Mt. Apo.
Bayan Muna Partylist Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate said the dispersal of the farmers in Kidapawan City resonates the 1987 Mendiola Massacre because of the police’s use of their firearms to disperse protesters.
The Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) passed a resolution on Thursday, March 31 to indefinitely close Mt. Apo from trekkers after a grass fire razed the peak of the mountain.
The government’s social pension program for indigent senior citizens this year has increased by P3 billion, which will increase the numbers of beneficiaries by almost half a million.
Senatorial aspirant and Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares called vice presidential candidate, Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr a “liar” about the human rights abuses committed during Martial Law.
The lawmaker said the declaration of the Aliwagwag Falls as a protected area shall shield it from exploitation, sustain its ecological stability and preserve it for future generation.
As the elections come near, the group said the next president should “realize a national democratic policy for the country, to be kicked off by genuine agrarian reform and national industrialization.”
Militant youth group Anakbayan has scored on the multinational oil companies on Friday, March 18 for the continued oil price increases, saying it will be an additional burden to the ordinary people.
