DSWD chides crass reportage on field worker

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet: The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) chided some journalists in their “careless and insensitive” reportage in Tuesday last week’s hacking to death” of a DSWD-Cordillera employee in Villaviciosa town in Abra.

DSWD-Cordillera director Leonardo Reynoso said that they are saddened how some media outfits “created unfair speculations and accusations among the public on the details of his passing,” and insisted that 29-year-old John Paul Barbero is “a well-loved and hardworking community facilitator of the Kapit-bisig Laban sa Kahirapan—Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services Project.”