BUTUAN CITY – Government security forces arrested four supporters of communist terrorist groups and seized from them war materials following a gunbattle in the hinterlands of Sitio Kilap-agan, Barangay Can-ayan, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon, the military reported on Wednesday, March 9. The...
President Duterte on Monday, March 7, said in jest that members of the New People's Army (NPA) should be invited to the inauguration of government projects as a "retreat from fighting." President Rodrigo Duterte (RTVM Screenshot) Duterte made the remark during his "Talk To The People" public...
ISABELA --Three former members of the communist terrorist group (CTG) who surrendered last month tipped-off government troops on the location of the remaining firearms of the CTG which led to their discovery and confiscation in Isabela. (Photo courtesy of 5ID / MANILA BULLETIN) Lt. Gen. Ernesto...
MATUGUINAO, SAMAR - Christmas came early for dozens of children in a former insurgency-infested municipality located in the tri-boundary of Northern, Western, and Eastern Samar. Letecea Tumagara, 42, beamed with joy as she saw her four children receive toys, food, slippers, and hygiene kits from...
BACOLOD CITY - At least 20 unidentified armed men believed to be members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were allegedly behind the burning of a backhoe worth P7 million at a quarry site in Sitio Nandong, Barangay Orong, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, March 2. A police officer and...
Now is the time for the government to focus its attention on the security threats in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) which impair the food needs and livelihood of Filipinos, Partido Reporma presidential candidate Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson on Thursday, March 3 said. Lacson, chairman of the Senate...
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan -- The Police Regional Office 2 (PRO2) nabbed at least 172 law violators and facilitated the surrender of 46 New Peoples Army (NPA) in a one-time, bigtime police operation. The Simultaneous Anti-Criminality Law Enforcement Operations (SACLEO) or one-day SACLEO focused on...
Bayan Muna Party-list has filed on Monday, Feb, 21, House Resolution (HR) 2496 to condemn and to pursue a congressional inquiry on the allegedly unconstitutional arrest and detention of Dr. Maria Natividad Castro by the Philippine National Police (PNP). Dr. Ma. Natividad Marian S. Castro Formally...
A suspected leader of the New People’s Army (NPA) and his wife were killed in an armed encounter with the military over the weekend while they were allegedly conducting extortion activities to influence the outcome of the local elections in Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental. (Courtesy of 402nd...
The Makabayan bloc, particularly Bayan Muna Party-list, wants to conduct a House probe on the "outrageous and highly condemnable" arrest of suspected Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (NPA) member, Dr. Maria Natividad Castro. (Photo from Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos...
Senator Kiko Pangilinan on Saturday, Feb. 19 condemned the arrest of a 53-year-old physician working as a health worker in Mindanao after she was accused of being a member of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA). Dr. Maria Natividad Castro (Photo courtesy of PNP-PIO)...
A doctor identified by the Philippine National Police as an alleged “communist terrorist group leader” was arrested in San Juan City on Friday, Feb. 18, but the family of the suspect denied the police’s allegations and called them “untrue.” Mugshot of Dr. Maria Natividad Castro (Courtesy...
