BBB program to drastically cut losses due to traffic–Jica

Around 3,000 workers from all over Southern Mindanao ​eventually made it the protest ​march ​here on Labor Day despite holding for hours the throng of mostly plantation workers ​in a highway in three provinces in the Davao Region.

After quarantine restrictions were lifted in parts of Mindanao, 543 students from four campuses of Mindanao State University (MSU) finally returned to their hometowns in Caraga Region Saturday.

Lumad groups and environmental advocates expressed opposition to the looming plunder of mining and logging interests in the mineral-rich Pantaron Range in Mindanao, as well as the attacks against environmental defenders, as they staged a protest action in Davao City during the Earth Day commemoration on Monday, April 22.

The continuing dry spell has completely dried up this farmland in La Fortuna, M’lang, North Cotabato owned by Lita Concepcion, 72, who complained that they were not able to plant again since the El Niño struck in the area in the middle of December last year. North Cotabato is already under the state of calamity…