DOTr hopes inter-agency council, with LGUs, can fix traffic faster

Construction workers take a rest. Government infrastructure projects continue amid the pandemic. Independent think-tank Ibon Foundation maintains such projects do not stimulate the economy and favor big business and foreign investors. (File photo by Raymund B. Villanueva) “The Duterte administration’s plans for economic recovery revolve around continuing infrastructure projects as the main source of economic…

Datu Reynaldo Ayuma condemns what he calls as “development aggression” in their community in a protest action in July 2018. (Photo by Ima Ariate) Kalumbay described Datu Reynaldo Ayuma as being “consistently at the forefront of the struggle of the Camansi evacuees against development aggression of their ancestral domain.” By EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com MANILA —…