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Northern Samar indigent students, families receive cash aid

REBUILDING LIVES. Former rebels and government officials during the turnover of livelihood kits in Catarman, Northern Samar in this Feb. 8, 2022 photo. The Department of Labor and Employment is pouring more funds for livelihood assistance to former rebels in four towns in Northern Samar province.(Photo courtesy of DOLE) TACLOBAN CITY - The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is pouring more funds for livelihood assistance to former rebels in four Northern Samar towns. Virgilio Doroja Jr., ...

(PNA file photo) MANILA - The government's counter-insurgency Barangay Development Program (BDP) will continue even amid this year's national and local polls. Monico Batle, director of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), said the anti-insurgency task force has sought exemption from the ban on public spending under the Commission on Election (Comelec) Resolution No. 10747. "Hindi po titigil yung implementation ng projects dahil po nag-request na...

BDP PROJECT. Barangay Magangit in Maco town, Davao de Oro receives a newly constructed health center from the government's Barangay Development Program (BDP) under the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, on Feb. 8, 2022. The program aims to eradicate the root causes of the insurgency, poverty, disease, lack of education and opportunities, and social injustice in remote communities across the country identified to have been influenced by the communist ideology. (Photo c...

BDP PROJECT. Barangay Magangit in Maco town, Davao de Oro receives a newly constructed health center from the government's Barangay Development Program (BDP) under the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, on Feb. 8, 2022. The program aims to eradicate the root causes of the insurgency, poverty, disease, lack of education and opportunities, and social injustice in remote communities across the country identified to have been influenced by the communist ideology. (Photo c...

The Police Regional Office 6 (PRO6) has released yesterday the current list of the region’s most wanted persons and members of the Communist Terrorist

(File photo) MANILA - The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) on Tuesday said it will endorse the presidential candidate who would continue the legacy programs of President Rodrigo Duterte. In a statement, party president Alfonso Cusi said PDP-Laban would support the candidate who will pursue Duterte's agenda of change, stressing that the elections should be issue-based and not personality-based. "What the country needs now, especially during this time of the pandemi...

Partido Reporma chairman and standard bearer Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson believes the military and police are moving in the right direction in its bid to put an end to the insurgency problem in the country. Sen. Panfilo Lacson stage Pangasinan Lacson is also supportive of the operations of the Na

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - The provincial government of Misamis Oriental is opening its doors to the Tourism Infrastructure Economic Zone Authority (TIEZA) and urging it to invest more in the province. In an interview on Wednesday, Governor Yevgeny Vicente Emano said the tourism industry can get a boost from more TIEZA investments, on top of existing tourism-related programs in the province. "I think the related laws (in tourism and industry) are already there, what is needed is the implementati...

PERSONA NON GRATA. Residents of an undisclosed barangay in the Visayas burn flags of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) to express their indignation. Visayas Command (Viscom) commander, Lt. Gen. Robert Dauz on Saturday (Jan. 29, 2022) said due to the dwindling support from the community, the CPP-NPA is getting irrelevant in the region.(Contributed photo) CEBU CITY - The Visayas Command (Viscom) on Saturday said communist rebels in the regions are fast becoming...