The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and NLEX Corporation are accelerating the construction of the first five-kilometer section of NLEX Connector from Caloocan Interchange, C3 to España, Manila. Photo by DPWH.
MANILA, Jan. 21 The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and NLEX Corporation are accelerating the construction of the first five-kilometer section of NLEX Connector from Caloocan Interchange, C3 to España, Manila as they aim to complete the project by yearend.
DPWH Secretary Mark A. Villar led the project inspection along 4th Avenue in Caloocan City together with NLEX Corporation President and General Manager J. Luigi L. Bautista.
Past and current Student Regents of the University of the Philippines (UP) Office of the Student Regent on Thursday opposed the Department of National Defense’s (DND) decision to terminate the deal preventing state forces from entering university grounds.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque says a conversation between the UP President and Defense chief may be the ‘proper course of action’ to resolve issues surrounding the accord, saying he would even offer his ‘good office’ should the parties need assistance.
(Photos from Anakbayan/ MANILA BULLETIN)
This after Duterte Youth Partylist Rep. Ducielle Cardema called on the DND to scrap the 1990 Prudente-Ramos accord that prevents members of the police and military from entering the PUP campus, saying that the state university is being given “special treatment.”
On Monday, the defense department unilaterally scrapped its 1989 agreement with the University of the Philippines (UP). Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana appeared to have red-tagged the whole institution, claiming that the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), uses the university’s campuses as recruiting grounds.
“Hindi totoong para sa kabutihan ng iskolar ng bayan ang pagbubukas ng pamantasan sa mga pulis at militar. Ito ay bahagi ng taktika ng rehimen kung saan sila’y nagtatanim ng gawa-gawang multo sa tabing ng ‘kontra-terorismo’ upang bigyang katwiran ang pag-harass, pag-aresto, at pagpatay sa non-combatants, m
Malacañang said President Duterte was not consulted before the Department of National Defense (DND) unilaterally terminated its agreement with the University of the Philippines (UP) that bars the entry of the military or the police in campuses without prior notice to the university's administration.