Church leaders to Duterte: Resume peace talks
MORE than 100 Christian clergy and lay leaders have called on President Duterte to continue the peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDF).
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MORE than 100 Christian clergy and lay leaders have called on President Duterte to continue the peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDF).
QUEZON CITY Mayor Herbert Bautista said the sanitary landfill in Payatas was managed well, and the city government must be allowed to manage a new waste dump. Bautista made the pitch in his opening statement during a meeting of city officials with officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources on Monday, August 7.
THE Quezon City Council has approved the application of three bus companies to build terminals along Quirino Highway in Novaliches, Quezon City.
QUEZON CITY Mayor Herbert Bautista is supporting an ordinance that bans the sale and promotion of junk food and soft drinks within 100 meters of public and private schools.
IN an attempt to control an army of junk shops in Quezon City, local officials have asked more than 700 recyclers to help the city government achieve its “Zero Litter sa QC Project.”
KARAPATAN is urging the Duterte administration and military authorities to free Marcos Aggalao, 74, on eight trumped-up charges since he has just suffered from a stroke that paralyzed half his body and continues to suffer pneumonia and dementia.
THE Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) criticized the Duterte administration for the massacre of CPP cadre Andres Hubilla (Ka Magno), New People’s Army (NPA) fighter Miguel Himor (Ka Billy) and civilians Arnel Borres and Dick Laura by security forces on July 28 in Barangay Trece Martirez, Casiguran, Sorsogon.
BATANGAS CITY—The construction of Calumpang Bridge No. 3 in this city will ease traffic congestion and ensure quicker transport of passengers and goods, Mayor Beverley Dimacuha said as she led the groundbreaking for the new span on July 23.
THE 28 political prisoners who continue to languish at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City are calling on President Duterte to free them, reminding the President of his promise last year to jump-start peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
Philippine Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) Director Dr. Renato V. Solidum Jr. has welcomed the request of President Duterte for Congress to immediately create the Department of Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DDRRM.)
THE New People’s Army (NPA) killed seven Army soldiers in an ambush staged by guerrillas in Sitio Quarry Benguet, Barangay Salvacion, Monkayo, Compostela Valley, on July 1.
CONCEPCION EMPEÑO and Erlinda Cadapan, mothers of missing University of the Philippines (UP) students Karen and Sherlyn, early this week commemorated the 11th year of their disappearance by renewing their call for justice.
PARTY-LIST Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate of Bayan Muna has warned local journalists that the proposed anti-fake news bill has a “very broad scope and it may infringe on the people’s constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of expression”.
FORMER and incumbent legislators, Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders, human-rights advocates and concerned citizens are calling on the public to join a “National Day of Prayer and Action for Peace and Human Rights” on Monday.
THE human-rights watchdog Karapatan has belied the claim of President Duterte that he had conceded so much to the demands of the National Democratic Front (NDF), including the release of almost all detained activists.
HIGH-school students and youth organizations, led by Anakbayan, Kabataan Party-list group and League of Filipino Students, have mounted a campout at the Department of Education (DepEd) office in Pasig City to protest tuition increases.
ACT Teachers lawmakers have found no reason to pursue the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program since it did not cut the poverty rate and did not reduce the dropout rate among children who benefited from the multibillion- peso scheme.
THE Kabataan Party-list group on Wednesday denounced the approval of increases in tuition and other school fees (OSFs) in 268 private colleges and universities by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
THE threat of President Duterte to arrest peace consultants of the National Democratic Front (NDF) returning from the Netherlands violates the terms of the agreements the Philippine government has signed with the NDF.
IT is the time for the Supreme Court (SC) and Congress to show they have spine and stand up to the abuses of President Duterte, who has just imposed martial law all over Mindanao.
VICE PRESIDENT Maria Leonor G. Robredo has called on the country to unite, as efforts to neutralize the Maute Group in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, are under way.
THE Child Rights Network (CRN) on Tuesday lauded the House of Representatives’s subcommittee that retained the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) at 15.
THE League of Filipino Students (LFS) is opposing the implementing rules covering the socialized tuition system and the increases in tuition and other school fees (OSFs) issued by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
FAITH-BASED institutions and human-rights advocates worldwide have called for the immediate release of Iglesia Filipino Independiente (IFI) Bishop Carlo Morales.
FAITH-BASED institutions and human-rights advocates worldwide have called for the immediate release of Iglesia Filipino Independiente (IFI) Bishop Carlo Morales.
TRAFFIC accidents kill 34 Filipinos daily, and are the main cause of death among young people aged between 15 and 19, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) show.
HUNDREDS of relatives of victims of summary executions and human-rights advocates have called on President Duterte to stop the bloodshed that has sullied his administration since he assumed office on June 30 last year.
SEVENTEEN industrialized countries and 17 developing nations have expressed serious concern over the bloody antidrugs war launched by President Duterte at the third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva, Switzerland, of the human-rights situation in the Philippines.
A SENIOR opposition lawmaker on Thursday asked the House of Representatives to investigate the secret detention cells allegedly maintained by the National Police as part of the so-called war against prohibited drugs.
Commission on Appointments-rejected Environment Secretary Regina L. Lopez was slapped with a graft complaint by a mining company for allegedly trying to extort P130 million for the benefit of a non-governmental organization (NGO) she controls.
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