Here’s a quick roundup of today’s top stories:
‘Missing’ persons in landslide area now at 110, says local gov’t
More families in the landslide-hit Masara village here have gone to authorities to report their missing loved ones.
The Maco municipal information office had recorded 110 missing persons as of 4 p.m. on Thursday in connection with the Feb. 6 landslide that engulfed parts of the village and buried two buses used to ferry employees of Apex Mining Co. Inc., which operates a gold mine in the mountainous region.
Marcos backs economic Cha-cha
President Marcos on Thursday fully supported efforts to amend the 1987 Constitution but the provisions on “economic matters alone” as he strongly rejected former President Rodrigo Duterte’s call for Mindanao to secede, saying that it would destroy the nation.
In a speech to the Philippine Constitution Association (Philconsa) during the celebration of Constitution Day in Makati City, Marcos said that while the Charter offered “no dynamism or flexibility” regarding the national territory, it is open to economic reforms.
Marcos: Calls for separate Mindanao ‘doomed to fail’
President Marcos on Thursday fully supported efforts to amend the 1987 Constitution but the provisions on “economic matters alone” as he strongly rejected former President Rodrigo Duterte’s call for Mindanao to secede, saying that it would destroy the nation.
In a speech to the Philippine Constitution Association (Philconsa) during the celebration of Constitution Day in Makati City, Marcos said that while the Charter offered “no dynamism or flexibility” regarding the national territory, it is open to economic reforms.