SURRENDERERS. Some 19 CPP-NPA Terrorists (CNTs) surrender with 12 firearms at Sitio Mahayag, Barangay St. Peter in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon on Oct. 27, 2021. A total of 20,579 former rebels have surrendered to the government from July 2016 to November 2021. (Contributed photo) MANILA - Almost PHP500 million worth of cash assistance has been given to the former rebels (FRs) under the government's Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (ECLIP), according to an official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). Navy Captain Ferdinand Buscato, executive director of Task Force Balik-Loob and representative of E-CLIP and Amnesty Clusters of NTF-ELCAC, said a total of 20,579 FRs have surrendered to the government from July 2016 to November 2021. Buscato said since the creation of NTF-ELCAC through Executive Order No. 80 in 2018, a total of 3,751 FRs have been given livelihood assistance worth PHP50,000 each (PHP187.2 million) while 6,171 rece
SURRENDERERS. Some 19 CPP-NPA Terrorists (CNTs) surrender with 12 firearms at Sitio Mahayag, Barangay St. Peter in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon on Oct. 27, 2021. A total of 20,579 former rebels have surrendered to the government from July 2016 to November 2021. (Contributed photo) MANILA - Almost PHP500 million worth of cash assistance has been given to the former rebels (FRs) under the government's Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (ECLIP), according to an official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). Navy Captain Ferdinand Buscato, executive director of Task Force Balik-Loob and representative of E-CLIP and Amnesty Clusters of NTF-ELCAC, said a total of 20,579 FRs have surrendered to the government from July 2016 to November 2021. Buscato said since the creation of NTF-ELCAC through Executive Order No. 80 in 2018, a total of 3,751 FRs have been given livelihood assistance worth PHP50,000 each (PHP187.2 million) while 6,171 rece
(Photo courtesy of Rico Osmena) MANILA - Malacanang strongly denounced the shooting of Rico Osmena, a blocktimer for radio station DYLA, who was shot while onboard a minibus traveling along Urdaneta St. in Barangay San Roque, Cebu City on Thursday. "The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) condemns the attack on Rico Osmena. I have already asked the Philippine National Police (PNP) Regional Office to use all available manpower and resources to find and apprehend the perpetrators of this cowardly act," PTFoMS Executive Director, Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco said in a news release. Initial report submitted to PTFoMS by the PNP through Maj. Edgar C. Labe, station commander of Police Station 3 in Cebu City, disclosed that at around 12:30 p.m., two unidentified male gunmen suddenly boarded the minibus and shot the victim twice in the back and immediately fled. Another female passenger was injured during the incident. Both victims were rushed to a nearby hospital and a
The Presidential Task Force on Media Security on Saturday said it is looking into whether journalist Jess Malabanan was involved in a land dispute that might have led to his murder in Samar.