Political dynasty, the very same vehicle that brought him to politics and the halls of Congress in the past, will be the very thing Rodolfo Plaza promises to fight against if he gets elected to Congress again in May.
At least 200 persons with disabilities and their families have been picketing since Monday inside the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) compound here to demand the release of logs intended for school armchairs.
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur—Caraga may have outperformed all regions in the country in terms of economic development in the last three years based on government data, but its people are still among the poorest, according to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the region.
There will be no more irritating daily four-hour brownouts in this province by August, but residents will have to pay as much as P10 per kilowatt hour for electricity to defray the cost of operating modular generating sets.
With just more than a week before the local campaign period starts, the bitter rivalry among the siblings of the long-running Plaza political dynasty in this province has heated up in public gatherings.
All their lives, they were small-scale miners until last year, when they were turned into forest guards of the Mt. Magdiwata watershed in San Francisco, Agusan del Sur.
Residents living in low-lying and landslide-prone areas were told to evacuate Monday as preemptive measure with the expected landfall of typhoon “Pablo.”
