Pastrana News – At least 300 farmers belonging to various farmers and irrigators associations have come together to hold their first general congress in this municipality. Led by the humanitarian aid organization ONEVisayas, the farmer’s…
DTI speaks of TRAIN effects on Suggested Retail…
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) wants to reassure the public that it is working to ensure the government’s new tax reform program will benefit the Filipino people while minimizing any negative effects. DTI being the…
No irregularity in Dengvaxia purchase found, says DOH…
The government’s purchase of P3 billion worth of dengue vaccines from a French pharmaceutical company in 2016 has been found so far to be “above board” and met all legal requirements of the government’s procurement…
First Law On Mental Health Likely To Be…
STATEMENT BY THE HONORABLE RON P. SALO, KABAYAN Party-list Assistant Majority Leader, 09178917755 /kabayanpartylist/ @Kabayan_Ron Assistant Majority Leader and House Committee on Health Member Ron P. Salo files House Bill 1040 or the Philippine Mental Health Law. HB…
Ex–mayor, other officials sued for issuing cheques to…
PASTRANA NEWS – An Ombudsman case has been filed by the local government here against former mayor Ernesto Martillo and eight other officials for issuing cheques in favour of themselves for ‘terminal leave pay’ before their…
Peasants back incoming DAR chief’s free land distribution…
Negros News - Thousands of landless peasants belonging to national peasant federation Task Force Mapalad (TFM) have thrown their support behind incoming Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Rafael "Ka Paeng” Mariano's pronouncement of pushing…
Peasants welcome Ka Paeng as DAR chief, urge…
Thousands of farmers who remain landless almost three decades since the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) have welcomed incoming President Rodrigo Duterte’s choice of Rafael "Ka Paeng” Mariano as secretary of the…
Farmers welcome Duterte’s pro-peasant stance, urge him to…
Thousands of farmers have welcomed the pronouncement of incoming President Rodrigo Duterte to implement an honest-to-goodness agrarian reform program to ensure the peasants’ future by dumping a loophole-ridden version of the program that allowed landlords…
Ormoc voters expecting ‘results’ from Gomez and his…
ORMOC CITY –– Residents from the one hundred and ten barangays of this developing constituency are expecting a lot from mayor-elect Richard Gomez and his Ormoc Development Team once they assume office starting July 1.…