BANI, Pangasinan – A more than century-old ancestral house owned by the family of former Metropolitan Manila Development Authority General Manager Tim Orbos here was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning. In a Facebook post, Orbos described the incident as heartbreaking but expressed gratitude...
Content creator Boss Toyo has apologized after drawing criticism over social media posts that many netizens viewed as casting doubt on veteran journalist Kara David 's "I-Witness" documentary about an illegal dumpsite in an Aeta ancestral domain in Subic, Zambales. The controversy began after...
What does it take to wake up the Philippine government? If the visual horror of a pristine forest turned into a mountain of trash isn’t enough, you would think the combined social media firestorm of multi-awarded actress Nadine Lustre and multimedia superstar Anne Curtis would do the trick....
DAVAO CITY – Former President Rodrigo Duterte 's ancestral house on Taal St., Bangkal, Barangay Talomo Proper here is temporarily closed to visitors. According to caretaker Mila, the Duterte patriarch 's former wife, Elizabeth Zimmerman, issued the directive. While the property is...
DIGOS CITY – The arraignment of eight individuals, including the barangay captain of Kapatagan, Digos City, accused of selling ancestral lands has been rescheduled to May 23. In an interview on Tuesday, May 9, Rogelio Manapol Jr., tribal chieftain of the Unified Bagobo Tagabawa, said that tribal...
In a bid to increase agricultural productivity in Mindanao’s ancestral domains, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has launched the five-year Mindanao Inclusive Agriculture Development Project (MIADP) which will run from 2023 to 2028. Farmers unhusk coconuts in a remote villages of Piklt, the top...
The remains of Pinoy royalty and Roman technology in Intramuros ROMUALDEZ HOUSE The Romualdezes have been in Pandacan since the turn of 19th century AD. The Romualdez house was bought by Miguel L. Romualdez when he was appointed sixth mayor of Manila (1924-1927) by then Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood Who...
MANILA – All programs, projects and activities of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict [(NTF ELCAC](https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1192650) ) would proceed despite the transition to a new leadership. "NSA (National Security Adviser) Dr. Clarita Carlos stressed that...
A decades-long dispute between a local tribe and the government over the right to implement the Casecnan Multi-purpose Irrigation and Power Project in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya may have finally been resolved, according to National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Administrator Benny Antiporda. In his...
A decades-long dispute between a local tribe and the government over the right to implement the Casecnan Multi-purpose Irrigation and Power Project in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya may have finally been resolved, according to National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Administrator Benny Antiporda. In his...
The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) has called for support against the presence and invasion of terrorist groups in the Ancestral Domains (ADs) and communities of the Indigenous Peoples (IP). National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (FACEBOOK) "Our IPs’ ways of life and...
(NATIONAL COMMISSION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FACEBOOK PAGE) The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) has issued a Certificate of Ancestral Land Title (CALT) to the Blaan tribe in Barangay Sinawal, General Santos City. The CALT, with a total area of 1,091 hectares, was received by the Ubo,...
