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Lawyer to the People...
At 72, Federico Gapuz does not look like a swashbuckling lawyer with a 10-gallon Stetson hat. But make no mistake: he does not seem to have passed his prime either. Gapuz remains among the few, brave men of the legal profession who wouldnt hesitate to come to the rescue of people prosecuted and...
RP Worst Place to Be a Human-Rights Law...
Foreign delegates at a recent gathering of lawyers in Davao City bewailed the continued killings of activists and the harassment and other threats being faced by lawyers who take the cases of the poor and those who suffer from abuses of the state. Davao Todays Cheryll D. Fiel reports.
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SCs Cha-Cha Decision: Davao Groups Elat...
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Leaders of business, legal and progressive groups are elated over the Supreme Courts decision junking the petition for a peoples initiative to change the Constitution. But, they warn, the fight to protect the charter from vested political interests is not yet over. Davao Todays Cheryll D. Fiel and Grace...
Ermita: SC decision on People’s In...
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Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said today he did not consider as a “total setback” to the Charter change movement the Supreme Courts rejection of the Peoples Initiative in amending the Constitution.
In his weekly press conference in Malacanang this afternoon, Ermita said the High Tribunals...
Beltran hails Supreme Court decision aga...
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Anakpawis Representative Crispin Beltran today hailed the decision of eight High Court justices, including Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban, Justices Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Angelina Sandoval-Gutierrez, Antonio Carpio, Romeo Callejo Sr., Ma. Alicia Martinez, Conchita Carpio-Morales and Adolfo Azcuna...
‘Best News of the Century’ &...
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THE SUPREME COURT, LED BY CHIEF JUSTICE ARTEMIO
PANGANIBAN, ONCE AGAIN HAS DEMONSTRATED HIGHEST SENSE
OF JUDICIAL RESPONSIBILITY BY STRIKING DOWN SIGAW NG
BAYAN-ULAP ASSAULT UPON RULE OF LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL
ORDER.
BEST NEWS OF THE CENTURY! ONCE AGAIN SUPREME COURT LED
BY CHIEF JUSTICE ARTEMIO PANGANIBAN...
Satur hails SC ruling vs. Palace initiat...
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October 25, 2006
Satur hails SC ruling vs. Palace initiative
House Deputy Minority Leader Satur C. Ocampo today hailed as a
“triumph of the people, and the fifth defeat for the Palace” the
reported Supreme Court vote of 8-7 striking down the fake...
Tarsilas Park...
Tarsila Villarente knows Rizal Park perhaps like no other people in Davao City. It has been her home for decades now. And shes not complaining. On beautiful, sunny days, she luxuriates in the shades, graciously offering cigarettes to customers. For her, it doesnt get any better than this. Davao Todays...
Scandal Frays Nerves of Davao Nurses...
Davaoeos who passed the scandal-tainted June 2006 nursing board exams are junking the plan to require a retake of the test, while some bewailed the governments failures in the education and health systems as the primary factors that created this mess. Jeffrey B. Javier reports.
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‘Press Freedom Index’ Puts R...
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10 24th, 2006 |
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The Philippines’s ranking in the “Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2006″ by the Paris-based Reporters Withour Borders has slipped, from 139th last year to 142nd this year. The country is in the bottom 20 of the rankings, sharing the ignominy with the worst violators of press freedom in the...
Dutertes Anti-Drugs Gambit...
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10 23rd, 2006 |
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Was Mayor Rodrigo Dutertes unprecedented appearance at the City Council motivated by a serious desire to eradicate the drug problem? If so, why didnt he or the PDEA file cases instead in court against the alleged drug dealers? Was it because of desperation and exasperation — that no matter what...
Dutertes Admission of Failure Proves Ex...
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By Cheryll D. Fiel
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DAVAO CITY If theres one thing the appearance of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte at the City Council last week proved, it is that the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug dealers and addicts, something that this city has seen for quite a long time now, cannot solve the drug...
Davao Peasants Decry Their Plight...
In this photo essay, Davao Todays Barry Ohaylan and Grace S. Uddin chronicle the day when peasants from Davao City and the other Davao regions took to the streets to denounce poverty and oppression.
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A Long, Agonizing Wait...
More than three years after he was abducted by hooded men in front of his welding shop in Maa, Sabdurah Abdullah Ala remains missing. It took a while for his devastated family to recover from the shock and grief. But today, they honor and remember him by fulfilling his dreams and wishes. And theyre still...
Bishop Boying and the Church of His Ti...
For newly elected IFI-Southern Mindanao Bishop Delfin Callao Jr., his ministry is a great cause, something that runs not only in his blood — his father, the late Bishop Delfin Callao Sr., also of the Davao diocese, loomed large in his defense of human rights and the welfare of the poor but in the...
Discriminatory Implementation of ID Sy...
MANILA Muslim leaders denounced the government on Saturday for the exclusive implementation of an identification system in Muslim communities in Manila, calling it discriminatory and a violation of human rights.
The exclusive implementation of the national ID system in Muslim communities in Metro...
Suffer the Children...
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10 14th, 2006 |
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The children of the striking workers of a banana plantation in Compostela Valley have endured the same hardships and abuse their parents went through. Many stopped going to school and, because nobody would care for them, were forced to join their parents at the picketline. Several were arrested and jailed....
The Banana Plantations of Compostela: A ...
Export banana plantations began in Compostela, Compostela Valley Province, in 1992. The plantations are run as growerships, in which primarily small landowners (1.5 16 hectares) enter into a contract with the company to provide a certain volume of bananas for a period of 20 years. When they began,...
To Rage with Heads Still Bowed in Praye...
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The brutal murder of IFI Bishop Alberto Ramento has galvanized the resolve of the churchs priests and followers in Davao City, vowing to continue the pro-people struggles of a beloved man who devoted his life to the masses. Davao Today managing editor Cheryll D. Fiel reports.
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Is There Place for Genuine Autonomy in a...
By Ren Jalaluddin Ropeta
The GRP-MILF standoff over the question of ancestral domain claim lies on the fact that the two parties perspective on the right to ancestral land and self- determination is separated by a mountain of differences.
As any government exists to maintain the status quo which in the...
Third Party Bombings Meant to Sabotage...
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has appealed on the different sectors in Mindanao to be vigilant, as a third party may sabotage the volatile situation in the southern Philippines due to the a breakdown of the peace negotiations between the front and the government. Davao Today’s Keith...
Feeling the Crunch...
The government hastens the privatization or commercialization of state colleges and universities by lowering the budget for these schools, who are forced to increase tuition and come up with all sorts of income-generating projects that have nothing to do with education. In the meantime, poor students and...
All Fired-Up: Students Oppose Tuition Hi...
Activism is alive and burning inside the UP Mindanao campus as students stayed up until dawn last week to protest the astronomical tuition increases the administrators of the University of thePhilippines system are proposing. Davao Today intern Melody Amor S. Nicolas was there.
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Cries for Justice, Tears of Pain...
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Songs, tributes and prayers were heard today at the Freedom Park, at a busy intersection in downtown Davao City, as Aglipayan parishioners, joined by priests, nuns, pastors, lay people from various religious denominations, labor leaders and activists took to the streets to denounce the Oct. 3 murder of...
Malacanang to Critics on Ramento Slay: R...
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Statement of Secretary Ignacio R. Bunye: Re Bishop Ramento slay
The murder of Aglipayan Bishop Alberto Ramento is an abominable act that the police must attend to with thoroughness and dispatch.
We join the victims family and his supporters in condemning this killing.
We urge some sectors to refrain from...
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