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FORMER Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio dismissed the proposed Mindanao secession by former President Rodrigo Duterte, questioning who would support such a move.
Village elections in the southern Philippines tend to be hard-fought and violent. Crisis Group expert Georgi Engelbrecht travelled there to understand what the most recent showdowns mean for regional polls scheduled for 2025 and for the peace process in an area historically racked by conflict.
AT least P2 trillion in funds supposedly for local government units (LGUs) remain unappropriated as per the so-called Mandanas-Garcia doctrine that allows provinces’ tax collections to be used for their own infrastructure needs and other services, according to Batangas Gov. Hermilando Mandanas. Mandanas bared that the supposed funds, following the…
THIRTY-FOUR of the 50 municipalities and cities under Cebu Province were given an “unofficial” updated status of their income classification by the Bureau of Local Government Finance in Central Visayas (BLGF 7) on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024.