Senate Finance Committee chief Senator Sonny Angara on Friday said it is still too early to say whether or not the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) should be abolished. “I think it’s way too early to make that judgment for the NTF-ELCAC. (It) only started to...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Friday urged newly-appointed Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Lt. Gen. Dionardo Carlos to review the PNP’s use of its anti-insurgency funds. Drilon challenged the incoming PNP leadership as he finds it suspicious that the PNP conducted about 13...
Senator Sonny Angara on Thursday, Nov. 11 rejected insinuations made by a colleague that the Senate could be seen as a supporter of the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) if the funding for the government’s anti-insurgency task force would suffer drastic cuts. Angara, during the continuation of the...
Two women's groups hailed the Senate's move to cut the budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) by 86 percent. (Photo from Anakbayan Morayta / FILE) On Tuesday, Senator Sonny Angara said the Senate Finance Committee is set to slash the budget of NTF-ELCAC...
Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo is eyeing the abolition of the controversial National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) if she wins the presidential race in 2022. Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP) Facing members of the Rotary Club of Makati in an online...
National Security Adviser (NSA) Hermogenes Esperon Jr. could not help but stress the importance of having a strong political will to fight communist insurgency after senators decided to cut the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict's (NTF-ELCAC) budget for 2022 by P24 billion....
Student regents, councils and governments of various colleges and universities on Wednesday, Nov. 3, strongly condemned the continued “book purging” in state universities. (Photo from Unsplash) In an open letter, the National Union of Students of the Philippines urged the Commission on Higher...
President Duterte will visit the MIMAROPA Region (Occidental and Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, and Palawan) on Thursday, Nov. 4, to witness the presentation of the peace and development initiatives of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). National...
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) on Tuesday, Nov. 2, urged higher education institutions (HEIs) nationwide to respect the decision of other universities and colleges when it comes to the “exercise of academic freedom.” Commission on Higher Education Chairman Popoy De Vera (Photo from...
To speed up the rollout of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines, local government units (LGUs) were urged by the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 to be creative in their inoculation strategies, including the conduct of house-to-house vaccination. Assistant Sec. Wilben Mayor (Photo: NTF...
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) should earmark some of its budget for the residents in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said. Gatchalian, chair of the Senate Energy Committee, noted that not a single centavo of its proposed...
The national government is eyeing to fully vaccinate at least 50 million Filipinos against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) before the end of 2021 and it is inching closer to hitting its target with the support of international partners, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said Friday, Oct. 29....
