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...
The Taguig City government has recommended to the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) the mandatory use of face masks for children 12 years old and above. Taguig’s Safety City Task Force has come up with a list of recommendations on the use of face masks by minors. Minors with their parents and...
Photo from PBA The PBA is anticipating a setup similar to the ones being implemented in movie theaters in the event the Inter-Agency Task Force allows the league to welcome back fans in the season-ending Governors’ Cup. PBA commissioner Willie Marcial is working on securing a meeting with IATF...
Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Chairman and CEO Sen. Dick Gordon warned the public on Tuesday, November 9 not to be complacent and to observe health protocols after the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) recently placed Metro Manila under Alert Level 2 on November 5. PRC Chairman and Senator Richard J....
A Christian students' group is calling anew for the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) after its budget was cut by the Senate Finance Committee from P28 billion to P4 billion. (Photo from SCMP) In a statement on Tuesday, Nov. 9, the Student...
Presidential aspirant Senator Manny Pacquiao on Tuesday, Nov. 9 scored the slow rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination program in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), saying the National Task Force should inoculate more people in the region. Pacquiao noted the region has the...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has vowed to investigate the arrest of three ambulant vendors who were seen in a viral video being dragged by members of Task Force Disiplina (TFD) into their service vehicle last Friday morning. The incident happened during an anti-illegal vending operation conducted...
Around 47 million doses of vaccines against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are currently stored in government storage facilities and are yet to be administered, an adviser to the National Task Force Against COVID-19 said Sunday, Nov. 7. Airport personnel unload 866,970 doses of Pfizer COVID-19...
A farmers group hit the proposal of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) and Department of Health (DOH) to make vaccination mandatory for specific sectors and urged to make economic aid mandatory instead. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) In a...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is eyeing to implement a "no vaccine, no subsidy" policy for recipients Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries in order to compel more people to get inoculated. This after the DILG found out that many 4Ps recipients still...
