PRESIDENTIAL frontrunner Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., will work to bring down the price of rice, a staple for Filipinos, in his administration, after he wins in the fast-approaching May 9 presidential elections. With barely three weeks remaining before the May polls, Marcos said in an interview that subsidizing the price…
President Duterte said he would be exiting the gates of the Malacañang compound in June "fulfilled" knowing that he had accomplished everything he promised the people when he was campaigning for the presidency in 2016.
President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte made this statement as h
(File photo) MANILA - The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) on Tuesday said it will endorse the presidential candidate who would continue the legacy programs of President Rodrigo Duterte. In a statement, party president Alfonso Cusi said PDP-Laban would support the candidate who will pursue Duterte's agenda of change, stressing that the elections should be issue-based and not personality-based. "What the country needs now, especially during this time of the pandemic, is a presidential candidate who will continue the tapang at malasakit (courage and compassion) brand of leadership of President Duterte that the people want," Cusi said. He particularly noted that the Build, Build, Build, Free Education, Universal Health Care, Free Irrigation, Barangay Development Program (BDP), and the whole-of-nation approach to end local communist armed conflict are Duterte's legacy programs that Filipinos want to continue. On January 21, PDP-Laban's national
National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict vice chair Hermogenes Esperon Jr. (File photo) MANILA - Around PHP500 million worth of Barangay Development Program (BDP) projects are now in the implementation stage in the Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, and Palawan) Region which is scheduled to be visited by President Rodrigo R. Duterte on November 3. "Of the 822 barangay recipients for 2021, 25 are found in Mimaropa wherein a total of 109 BDP projects worth PHP500,000,000 are in the implementation stage," said National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) vice chair Hermogenes Esperon Jr. in a statement Tuesday. Esperon said the cleared barangays will be receiving a package of development programs worth PHP20 million per village through BDP alone. These consist of five BDP core projects which include farm-to-market roads, school buildings, water and sanitation systems, livelihood programs, and health stations, he added. "Other n
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