Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Monday, August 2, scored the Duterte administration’s plan to double the budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to P40-billion in the upcoming deliberations of the proposed 2022 national budget saying the...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Sunday, August 1 expressed his disappointment at the government for prioritizing funding for the anti-insurgency program while it is scrambling for funds for the special amelioration program or 'ayuda.' Drilon noted the P16.3-billion lodged under the...
Celine Pialago is equal parts proud and hopeful to be part of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict or the NTF-ELCAC. Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Assistant Secretary Celine Pialago (Photo from Pialago's Facebook) Pialago made this revelation on Facebook...
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Assistant Secretary Celine Pialago isn't the type of person who cuts her hair out of gloom. In fact, she appears to be the opposite of that. (Photo from Asec Celine Pialago's Facebook) Pialago on Thursday night, July 29 debuted on Facebook her...
With less than a year left in the term of President Duterte, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. laid out his priorities to keep the country safe from all forms of internal and external security threats. National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. (REY BANIQUET/Presidential Photo...
Contrary to his perceived persona of making headline-grabbing statements against individuals or groups accused of ties with communist groups, Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. formally retired from the military service in a rather "quiet" ceremony over the weekend. Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. retires...
National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. disclosed Wednesday, July 21, that the successor of President Duterte should continue the operations of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to sustain the gains in putting an end into the 52-year-long insurgency...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) scored the Makabayan bloc in Congress on Tuesday, July 20, for allegedly spreading lies about the Barangay Development Program (BDP). Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya (DILG photo) Bayan Muna Rep Eufemia Cullamat earlier branded DILG Secretary...
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) welcomed Monday, July 19, the decision of an Olongapo City court to acquit two Aetas who were the first individuals to be charged as terrorists under the controversial Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020. (National Task Force to...
House deputy minority leader and Bayan Muna Party-list Representative Carlos Isagani Zarate on Saturday, July 17, vowed that the Bayan Muna and the rest of the Makabayan bloc would oppose and block the additional P40 billion Barangay Development fund (BDF) that the National Task Force to End Local...
Various development projects worth P40 million were launched by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in two barangays in Ilocos Sur on Friday, July 16. National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. (second from right), vice chairman of the National Task Force...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) assured the public on Thursday, July 15, that the unused multi-million anti-insurgency fund that was allocated for the police organization last year is intact and can still be spent until December this year. PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar acknowledged...
