Bello announces possible resumption of talks in August
Formal peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) may resume on the second or third week of August, government chief negotiator Silvestre Bello III said. In a Malacañan press briefing today, Bello said he met Sunday night with NDFP counterpart Fidel […]
No free tuition yet under Duterte, students say
Majority of University of the Philippines (UP) students will still be asked to pay matriculation fees despite the Rodrigo Duterte government’s announcement of an additional P8.3 billion funding to make tuition free in state universities and colleges (SUCs) next school year. This is according to CHED and the Department of Budget and Management’s (DBM) April […]
Do Filipinos think Duterte has brought change?
The Rodrigo Duterte government turned a year old last June 30. Students and other ordinary Filipinos were asked if the reforms the President promised when he was still a candidate and new in office are already being felt. Watch this video and learn what they have to say. (Video by Gabby Endona of UP-CMC for […]
Activists to Duterte: Is this the change you promised?
Marking Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s first year in office, people’s organizations from the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) evaluated his performance using emoticons in a rally in Manila last June 30. While acknowledging that the Duterte government delivered on some of his promises, the activists said the president promised so much more but has yet to deliver. […]
Students score Duterte for breaking promise to prioritize education
Students from different University of the Philippines (UP) system units scored President Rodrigo Duterte’s failure to prioritize education despite a P8 billion Higher Education Support Fund (HESF) under the government’s free tuition program for 2017. In a rally on the first anniversary of Duterte in office Friday, the protesters recalled Duterte promised before typhoon Lawin […]
San Roque residents still hope for Duterte’s promised change
Their shrinking community now lies sandwiched between towering apartments and sprawling malls for the moneyed few. But residents of Sitio San Roque in Barangay Pag-Asa in Quezon City remain hopeful their struggle for decent and just housing would finally come true under President Rodrigo Duterte who promised as much. (Video by Gabe Sante and Gabby […]
Lumad schools decry continuing attacks under Duterte govt
Attacks on Lumad schools remained vicious under the year-old Rodrigo Duterte government, up to 80 percent of reported cases happening in the President’s home region of Southern Mindanao, a network of Lumad schools reported. Lumad schools continued to suffer threats, harassments, intimidations, vilifications, red-tagging and surveillance in the first year of the Duterte government, the […]
CPP: Still no refrain order from Duterte
Has President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to stop its all-out war against the New People’s Army (NPA) yet?, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) asked Malacañan in a statement today. Reacting to a statement yesterday by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) and […]
NDFP consigns JASIG list with 3rd Party Depository
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has again deposited for safekeeping with a Third Party Depository its list of peace negotiators and consultants immune from arrest and surveillance, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) announced. Through its website, the OPAPP said the NDFP list of Joint Agreement on […]
Educators urge lifting of martial law in Mindanao
Educators who participated in the National Interfaith Humanitarian Mission in the Lanao provinces last June 13 to 16 are demanding the lifting of Martial Law in Mindanao. In a press briefing at the University of the Philippines last June 20, the educators said martial law and the indiscriminate manner in which the war against terror […]