Senate President Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri says that the Philippines is in safe hands as shown to them during an executive session regarding the recent bombing of Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City. Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri speaks with members of the media just after the...
Sen. Robinhood Padilla urged the government to take every possible course of action in looking for ways to fund compensation programs for victims of the 2017 Marawi Siege. During his interpellation on Tuesday night, November 14, on the budget of the Marawi Compensation Board, Padilla said...
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has granted its approval for the disbursement of P1 billion as compensation to the victims of the 2017 Marawi siege. In a statement, Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman said the DBM has approved the issuance of a Special Allotment Release Order...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Mayor John Dalipe here led a program commemorating the tenth anniversary of the infamous Zamboanga City siege on Saturday, September 9. Ten years ago on September 9, 2013, extremist rebels forced their way and held six barangays here hostage. The memorial ceremony involved a...
The Department of Science and Technology – Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) announced that 29 students have qualified for its Bangon Marawi Program in Science and Technology Human Resource Development (STHRD), a scholarship program for those affected by the armed conflict or were displaced...
Marawi City right after the siege over six years ago. (MANILA BULLETIN) The Marawi Compensation Board (MCB) has an estimated 12,000 pending individual appointments seeking either structural or death claims in connection with the 2017 Marawi seige. This was bared by MCB Chairperson lawyer Maisara...
MARAWI CITY – Residents who were displaced when this city became a battlefield between government forces and the militants affiliated with the Islamic State six years ago will finally be compensated following the signing on Tuesday, May 23, of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of...
After seeing scores of voters flocking to precincts, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia believes that they will attain a 92 percent voter turnout in Marawi City's plebiscite on Saturday, March 18. In an interview, Garcia mentioned that it was only during the morning...
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...
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalis anxiously waited to know the fate of their missing relatives on Sunday as emergency workers attempted to clear debris after a deadly 30-hour siege by Al-Shabaab jihadists at a hotel in the capital Mogadishu. People watch outside of destroyed Hayat Hotel after a deadly...
Senator Robinhood "Robin" Padilla on Tuesday, Aug. 9 pushed for the speedy creation of a compensation board that would process claims from victims of the 2017 Marawi siege. "It has been five years since the Marawi Siege transpired and the victims are still awaiting the implementation of (Republic...
Four and a half years after the end of the five-month long Marawi siege in May to October 2017, Congress has passed Republic Act No. 11696, the Marawi Siege Victims Compensation Act. The law provides compensation to those whose kin were killed, as well as those whose properties were destroyed in...
