President Barack Obama sought to move the U.S. beyond the war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida.
Farm workers who are poised to receive parcels of land from the Hacienda Luisita sugar estate may avail themselves of support services from government agencies to boost their productivity, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said Thursday.
Putting its money where its mouth is, the government has released P42 million to the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC), which is tasked to draw up the basic law of the proposed autonomous region.
Farm workers entitled to parcels of land from the Hacienda Luisita sugar estate may avail themselves of support services from government agencies to boost productivity, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said Wednesday.
The burden of explaining the P21-million jump in the net worth of Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chair Francis Tolentino lies with him, Malacañang said Saturday.
Members of the Government Service Insurance System whose premium payments are not up to date will no longer have their access to benefits and privileges suspended, especially since the fault was not theirs but the agencies they work for.
Malacañang expects the senators who ran and won under the administration’s Team PNoy coalition to support President Aquino’s big-ticket legislation like the organic law for the Bangsamoro autonomous region that will seal the government’s peace deal with the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Malacañang on Monday challenged fugitive Cezar Mancao II to support his claims of corruption in the government’s witness protection program with evidence, and turn himself in.
Despite the escalating word war between Malacañang and leaders of the local communist movement, Team PNoy senatorial candidate Risa Hontiveros still wants the government to pursue peace talks and maintain open communication lines with the rebel group.
The accidental shooting death of a two-year-old at the hands of her five-year-old brother has revived the perennial gun debate in the United States, where weapons are made just for kids.
The former lawyer of Cezar Mancao II has called on his erstwhile client to yield to authorities following his escape from his detention cell at the National Bureau of Investigation headquarters, an NBI official said Thursday.
Prospects are dimming, if not altogether lost, for a peaceful end under the Aquino administration to the longest-running and lone Maoist insurgency in Asia.
Luis Jalandoni, peace panel chairperson of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), on Wednesday declared that the communist rebel movement is still open to the resumption of peace negotiation with the Philippine government.
