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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 P28 billion in 2022. That should be the figure and that is why I am a little surprised that I heard f...

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 22) — The country's budget deficit reached ₱200.3 billion in May, slightly narrower than last year's 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 deficit's recent marginal narrowing comes as "growth in expenditure levels kept pace with the acceleration in revenue collection." The governm...

SunStar + May 06, 2021 THE Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTC-Elcac) in Western Visayas is asking for the support of senators for the barangay development program. The call was made as some senators opposed the program and even proposed its defunding. In a statement, Flosemer Chris Gonzales, spokesperson of the RTF-Elcac-Western Visayas, said the most effective way to end local communist armed conflict is to bring basic services and infrastructure projects to far-flung barangays. The National Task Force-Elcac has undertaken the task of bringing the muc...

Published May 4, 2021, 2:10 PM Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday, May 4 questioned the “speedy” release of P10.6-billion out of the P19-billion controversial budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). The move comes after majority of the lawmakers called for the realignment of the NTF-ELCAC’s fund to augment the government’s coronavirus (COVID-19) response following criticisms against its red-tagging activities. The government’s anti-insurgency task force has a total appropriation of P19-billion under the 2021 national budget...

By HANA BORDEY, GMA News Published April 23, 2021 2:36pm Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Friday said he will ask the chamber’s leadership to compel the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to submit its quarterly report on the P19 billion anti-insurgency fund under the 2021 national budget. Drilon noted that the NTF-ELCAC is required to submit a report on these funds to both houses of Congress in accordance to a provision under the 2021 General Appropriations Act (GAA). “I will request the Senate leadership to require NTC-ELCAC to submit t...