Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte underscored the importance of ensuring the youth stay in schools, describing education as a “great equalizer” and one that would provide a path from poverty. Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte in Digos City to attend its 23rd...
Soldiers should take care of Filipinos and their well-being to build trust and cooperation in order protect them from security threats, Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte said on Thursday, Sept 7. Vice President Sara Duterte delivers a speech during the 20th Infantry Division of...
National Security Adviser Eduardo M. Año (File photo) The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) joined the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to become its first private sector representative as the government bolsters its campaign...
Palawan being an insurgency-free province will play a "very large part" in Philippine tourism and in transforming the economy, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of the City Information Department of Puerto Princesa) Marcos said...
Palawan is now an insurgency-free province. President Marcos leads the banging of the Peace Gong, symbolizing the start of the National Peace Consciousness Month on Sept. 1, 2023 in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan. (RTVM Screenshot) President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. declared on Friday, Sept....
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has ordered the government to sustain its efforts to encourage communist insurgents to surrender. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) Rebels returning to the fold of the law, Marcos said, would spur rural development....
National Security Adviser (NSA) Secretary Eduardo Año on Thursday, Aug. 31, said he is hopeful that the Philippine armed forces can refocus on protecting the country against external forces in the wake of continuous geopolitical issues after it ends the decades-long insurgency. National Security...
The issuance of a proclamation granting amnesty to rebel returnees could become President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s “strategic weapon” to finally put an end to the country’s almost six-decade-long problem on insurgency. Former peace adviser Eduardo Ermita bared this on...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has approved the designation of 17 of his appointees as Cabinet Officers for Regional Development and Security (CORDS) for the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to further intensify the administration’s fight...
All departments, bureaus, offices, agencies, and instrumentalities of the government will now have a peace and development office (PMO) to institutionalize the implementation of the programs of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). *National Security Adviser...
Vice President Sara Duterte met with the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army on Thursday, July 13, in Barangay Arenas, Northern Samar. (Photo from Inday Sara Duterte via Facebook) In a Facebook post, Duterte credited them for the role they played in Davao City’s campaign against the...
The New People’s Army (NPA) is now a “spent force” as it only has 1,800 active fighters left from a peak of 24,000 in the 1980s, an official of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) bared Monday, July 10. *Col. Medel Aguilar, spokesperson of Armed Forces of the Philippines * Col. Medel...
