Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman has approved the issuance of a Special Allotment Release Order (SARO) amounting to P1 billion for this year’s compensation to Marawi siege victims. “This allocation provides monetary compensation for 574...
House Minority Leader Marcelino Libanan (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-List Rep. Marcelino Libanan highlighted on Thursday, Aug. 3 the additional P1 billion in compensation funds meant for the victims of the 2017 Marawi siege. “There is another P1 billion...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has committed to continue rebuilding Marawi and help displaced individuals due to the 2017 siege. "We continue to rebuild Marawi in the aftermath of the siege that took place on May 23, 2017," Marcos said in a Facebook post on Tuesday night, May 23. He...
Preparations for the Marawi City plebiscites have been completed, the first local electoral exercise since the siege in 2017, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Friday, March 17. In a statement, Comelec stated that it conducted on Friday (March 17) a command conference in the House of...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is set to hold plebiscites on March 18 which aims to ratify the creation of Barangays Boganga II and Datu Dalidigan in Marawi City. According to Comelec, the creation of the two new barangays are the direct result of the effects of the Marawi Siege, which...
President Duterte's leadership in government efforts to protect people's lives – one from a virus that caused a pandemic, and the other, from a terrorist attack that caused the five-month war in Marawi City – will be among the major highlights of his six-year presidency. President...
