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Police have arrested a 61-year old man who is allegedly a member of the New People's Army (NPA) operating in Bicol during a raid in his house in Sto. Domingo town of Albay early Sunday morning, May 2. Maj. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro, director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group...

Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) have arrested a 21-year-old woman who was tagged as a member of the communist underground movement in a raid in Naga City, police said on Sunday, May 2. CIDG director Maj. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro said the operation that occurred...

Senator Christopher “Bong” Go said he is against defunding the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) despite criticisms over its red-tagging activities. Go warned that the move to discontinue the allocation of funds to NTF-ELCAC could derail the government’s...

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday, April 26, admitted he was among the senators who voted in favor of the creation of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), a presidential task force established to provide a whole-of-nation approach to combat insurgency....

No less than President Duterte will take the lead in the government's campaign to eradicate the threat of local communist insurgency to ensure that it will be completed at the soonest time possible, National Security Adviser (NSA) Hermogenes Esperon Jr. bared in a statement. President Rodrigo Roa...