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Filipino farmer groups have called on the Duterte administration to stop targeting their ranks as they are being rounded up and forced to “surrender” as alleged members of the New People’s Army.

National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. did not mince his words in criticizing Vice President Leni Robredo and some "senior senators" over their proposal to realign the multi-billion peso budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) for the social amel

Press Release Q: on NTF-ELCAC SFMD: Last year they said there are 822 barangays that were cleared of insurgency and next year there will be a total of 2,220, so if you deduct the 822, which were previously funded, you will get a balance of 1,398 cleared barangays. At P20 million each, my estimate is there is roughly P28 billion that they will be asking for. That is why I estimated last June that given these statements by the DILG about the cleared barangays, I estimated that they will ask for P...

National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. (REY BANIQUET/Presidential Photo / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) On top of Esperon’s priority list are the strengthening of the country’s position in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) and ending the menace of the Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army (CPP-NPA). According to Esperon, the country’s maritime dispute with China and other claimant countries in the WPS “is a problem that can be solved not in our lifetime.” “...

Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya (DILG photo) Bayan Muna Rep Eufemia Cullamat earlier branded DILG Secretary Eduardo Año as “thick-skinned’’ for proposing an additional P40 billion in the 2022 budget for the BDP where 2,000 barangays that have been cleared of New People’s Army (NPA) influence will be allocated with funds for the establishment of various development projects like farm-to-market roads, schools, houses, health centers, electrification, water, and livelihood projects among o...

Published July 7, 2021, 11:02 AM The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) confirmed Wednesday, July 7, that 99 percent of the Barangay Development Program (BDP) funds intended for 822 barangays cleared of communist terrorist groups (CTG) has been released to the localities as of June 30, 2021. DILG Secretary Eduardo M. Año said that the P16.24-billion funds will be used for 2,276 projects in the 812 barangays whose allocations have already been approved and released by the De...

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 22) — The countrys budget deficit reached ₱200.3 billion in May, slightly narrower than last years tally but the widest since December, data from the Treasury Bureau published Tuesday revealed. The latest figure is 0.91% lower than the ₱202.1 billion logged in May 2020. However, it is the largest recorded since December, where the fiscal deficit ballooned to ₱302.6 billion. The Treasury noted the deficits recent marginal narrowing comes as ...

KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, May 31 (PIA) -- Sixty-two barangays in SOCCSKSARGEN Region

Published June 1, 2021, 4:53 PM Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday vowed to oppose next year’s budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), reiterating his belief the budget would be used as a huge “campaign kitty” of the Duterte administration for the 2022 elections. “We should be more vigilant. The 2022 budget is an election budget. We must not allow the budget to be used for election or partisan political activities,” Drilon sa...

KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, May 31 (PIA) -- Sixty-two barangays in SOCCSKSARGEN Region