The intensified campaign against communist insurgency will be sustained by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) despite the resignation of Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. as one of its spokespersons. National Security Adviser Hermogenes C. Esperon Jr. (File photo/...
President Duterte has accepted the resignation of controversial anti-communist insurgency task force spokesman Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. (File photo) Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the statement after Parlade himself announced that he has resigned as spokesman...
The House Committee on Higher and Technical Education on Wednesday, June 2, approved the substitute bill that seeks to institutionalize the 1989 accord between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of National Defense (UP-DND) into the UP Charter of 2008. University of the...
After announcing the roster of its eight primary spokespersons, the National Task Force (NTF) to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) said Saturday, May 15, that it will designate "more" mouthpieces to match the "extensive propaganda machine" of the Communist Party of the Philippines...
Development projects have started in at least six barangays in Northern Samar that were identified as beneficiaries of the Barangay Development Program (BDP), an official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) disclosed Saturday, May 15. NTF-ELCAC Spokesperson...
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has distributed P10.68 billion or 65 percent of the total P16.44-billion fund alloted for the Barangay Development Program (BDP), a task force official announced Monday, May 10. NTF Vice Chairman and National Security Adviser...
Leyte Representative Lucy Torres-Gomez on Monday appealed to lawmakers to reconsider proposals to defund the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) warning such moves would reduce the government’s gains in the fight against local insurgency. Torres-Gomez proposed...
Police have arrested a 61-year old man who is allegedly a member of the New People's Army (NPA) operating in Bicol during a raid in his house in Sto. Domingo town of Albay early Sunday morning, May 2. Maj. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro, director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group...
Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) have arrested a 21-year-old woman who was tagged as a member of the communist underground movement in a raid in Naga City, police said on Sunday, May 2. CIDG director Maj. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro said the operation that occurred...
