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PRESIDENT Rodrigo Roa Duterte admitted on Monday that the road to peace is always a rocky road but still hoping his administration could talk again with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF). ”There is no negotiation that comes easy to us especially given the turmoil of our country. We are hoping that we could just talk, maybe we did not understand each other,” the President said during the mass oath-taking […]
MANILA, Philippines (PIA) – Vice President Leni Robredo issued a statement re extrajudicial killings saying, “We support President Duterte’s declaration that the fight against drugs and crime must be done with an uncompromising exercise of the rule of law. In her statement, Vice President Robredo noted, however, that there have been over a hundred cases of drug-related reports of killings in less than a month. “While we are one with the fight against drugs, we […]
President Rodrigo Duterte has issued his first executive order (EO) streamlining offices in the executive branch. In executive order No. 1, entitled “Reengineering the Office of the President towards greater responsiveness to the attainment of development goals,” Cabinet Secretary Leoncio “Jun” Evasco Jr., will be overseeing the following: Evasco, a former New People’s Army rebel, served as Duterte’s chief of staff during the time President Duterte was Davao City Mayor. The agencies will deal largely […]
