“That is under review and I think there will be some legal aspects there so I will not comment on that matter for the meanwhile,” Carlos told reporters in a press briefing on Friday.
(Photo courtesy of AFP) MANILA - The government's capability to address all aspects of the communist insurgency was greatly enhanced by the establishment of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief Gen. Andres Centino said Tuesday. "When the NTF-ELCAC was established through EO (Executive Order Number) 70, it strengthened our collective effort addressing all facets of insurgency," he added in a statement. Centino also recalled the difficulty of sustaining gains and efforts before the issuance of EO 70 by President Rodrigo Duterte in 2018. EO 70 institutionalizes the collective participation and action of all government development efforts and services to support, facilitate and pursue the country's peace agenda. "This (EO 70) allowed us in the security sector to focus on the armed group, while in the past, the AFP and the PNP (Philippine National Police) were doing a lot of things that
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the utilization of ancestral domains and lands as economic zones. PEZA Director General Charito B. Plaza said the agreement is in compliance with the
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority has partnered with the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples to promote the creation of economic zones in ancestral domains and lands to spur development in the countryside.
SERVED. Officials of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples Region 10, other government agencies, police, and military serve a cease and desist order on Kianteg Development Corporation in Quezon, Bukidnon on Saturday (April 30, 2022). The company and all other claimants are ordered to stay out of the property being claimed by the Manobo-Pulangihon Indigenous tribe as its ancestral land. (Photo courtesy of NCIP) CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) has ordered a company occupying a portion of an ancestral domain in Quezon, Bukidnon to stop its operations on the disputed land. Allen Capuyan, NCIP chairperson, posted on Facebook on Saturday that a cease and desist order (CDO) has already been served to the Kianteg Development Corporation (KDC). Capuyan posted a copy of the CDO received by one of the Kianteg's security personnel guarding the contested site. The CDO was served by the NCIP-10 team with Office on Empowerment and Human Rights Di