Malacañang has adopted the National Action Plan for Unity, Peace, and Development (NAP-UPD) 2025–2028 as the government’s strategic blueprint for promoting sustainable peace and addressing insurgency in the country. In issuing Memorandum Circular No. 83, signed by Executive Secretary Lucas...
NTF-ELCAC Executive Director Usec. Ernesto Torres Jr. (Courtesy of RTVM) The National Task Force to End Local Communist Program (NTF-ELCAC) recommended to President Marcos Jr. on Wednesday, March 26, the inclusion of 280 barangays that were cleared of influence and threat from local terrorist...
BUTUAN CITY – The Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict in the Caraga region has declared the provinces of Surigao del Norte and Dinagat Islands as insurgency-free, the Police Regional Office-13 said. ABRAHANO (FB) “Yes, Surigao del Norte and Province of Dinagat Islands are...
NTF-ELCAC Executive Director, Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr. (File photo) The Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations of the Philippines (COCOPEA), an umbrella organization of around 1,500 private schools across the country, has withdrawn from being a member of the executive...
Police recently arrested a New People’s Army amazon allegedly involved in the murder of Far Eastern University football player Keith Absalon and his cousin Nolven Absalon in Masbate City in June 2021. Police Regional Office-5 (Bicol) chief Police Brig. Gen. Andre P. Dizon identified the suspect...
NTF-ELCAC Executive Director Usec. Ernesto Torres Jr. (File photo) No less than President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has assured the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) that it “will stay” despite calls made by certain groups for its abolition,...
National Security Council (NSC) Asst. Director-General Jonathan Malaya (File photo) Despite calls for the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), President Marcos Jr. ordered the increase the funding of its Barangay Development Program (BDP) from P2.5...
NTF-ELCAC Executive Director, Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr. wants to intensify the government’s information awareness campaign against various recruitment techniques by insurgency groups, particularly the Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army – National Democratic Front...
National Security Adviser Eduardo M. Año (File photo) The National Security Council (NSC) hailed on Monday, Aug. 12, the recent decision by the Court of Appeals (CA) dismissing the petition for writ of amparo and writ of habeas data filed by environmental activists Jhed Tamano and Jonila...
Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel (Facebook) Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel is pushing for the realignment of funds from government programs that are considered “Duterte legacies” to education and social service programs. During the...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Facebook) ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro is calling for the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and the reallocation of its budget to agencies that...
(File photo) The national government promised to defeat the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed component of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), within the term of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (PBBM) even with the resignation of Vice President Sara Duterte as one of its...