Day: May 28, 2011

Media Release May 28, 2011 Four consecutive successful military actions were launched by units under the Pulang Diwata Command-New People’s Army against enemy troops in the mountain areas of Agusan del Norte. Two (2) were killed and four (4) were wounded from the enemy while there were no casualties from the Red Fighters. May 20,…

Media Release May 28, 2011 The Department of Justice’s Regional Prosecution Office (RPO)-10 has thrown out a complaint filed by four former media workers against Camiguin Island Governor Jurdin Jesus Romualdo. The complaint, which stemmed from a mauling incident a day before the May 10, 2010 National and Local Elections allegedly involving Romualdo and his…

Media Release May 28 , 2011 Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno hailed the filing last May 17 of a Congressional bill seeking to repeal the power of the Labor secretary to assume jurisdiction over labor disputes, saying the latter served as “license” for the massacre of striking farm workers in the Aquino-owned Hacienda Luisita in…

NEWS RELEASE 28 May 2011 The Samahan ng Ex-detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), an organization of former political prisoners, today denounced the practice of granting special privileges given to moneyed prisoners in jails such as in the National Bilibid Prisons and in Camp Bagong Diwa in the light of the recent news that…

NEWS RELEASE May 28, 2011 The sincerity of the Government of the Philippines (GPH) under President Noynoy is under serious question because of the failure to release Alan Jazmines and other NDFP Consultants and JASIG-protected persons. The GPH through its Negotiating Panel committed itself “to work for the expeditious release of detained NDFP consultants and…