2006 November- Davao Today

Davao City Wins Another �Green Banner� A...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Children/Youth, Health, Politics on 11 30th, 2006 | 1 Comment

For the second year, Davao City won the Green Banner Award, one of the prestigious and outstanding awards given to a local government unit, city or municipality of the region because of its relentless campaign in promoting and implementing its nutrition program. ...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Politics on 11 30th, 2006 | 1 Comment

The University of the Philippines Center for Local and Regional Governance after conducting the nationwide search for the Most Outstanding Provincial, City and Municipal Mayors, gave the outstanding municipal mayor award to Mayor Maximo M. Estela, MD of Sto. Tomas at the awarding ceremonies held at the...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Business, Travel & Leisure on 11 30th, 2006 | No Comments

DAVAO CITY– Close on the heels of the successful Trade Mission of Southern Mindanao’s Jose Abad Santos-Glan-Sarangani (JAGS-CT) Cooperation Triangle to Indonesia last September, a new Indonesian airline company has started serving the Davao-Manado (Indonesia) route today boosting trade ties...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Environment, Health, Latest Posts on 11 30th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Nearly 80 individuals, most of them schoolchildren, fell ill on Wednesday after they were exposed to toxic fumes from the banana plantation of Tadeco, which is owned by the Floirendos, in Dujali, Davao del Norte, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported. Authorities said at least 30 of the children passed out...

Pushed to the Wall...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Labor, Latest Posts on 11 30th, 2006 | 1 Comment

Click here to view the slide show (actual size). For months, the workers at a Davao del Norte banana plantation owned by Marsman-Drysdale, one of the largest agri-business companies in the country, were not paid their salaries. This plunged the workers� families into extreme conditions and...

The Vanishing...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Crime & Public Safety, Human Rights, Latest Posts on 11 30th, 2006 | 1 Comment

Nelly and Federico Intise, a Davao City couple known for their work in the NGO community, disappeared last month without a trace. Davao Today contributor Gingging Avellanosa, a friend of Nelly�s, writes that anxious family and friends believe that the military took them. Nelly and Federico Intise have been...

Young Davao Filmmaker Triumphs...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Arts & Culture, Latest Posts on 11 30th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Sherad Anthony Sanchez: Young and victorious The independent digital film “Huling Baylan ng Buhi (The Last Priestess of Buhi)” by 21-year-old Davao filmmaker Sherad Anthony Sanchez won the top prizes, including best picture and best director, in this week’s Cinema One Originals...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Crime & Public Safety, Environment, Latest Posts on 11 27th, 2006 | No Comments

By Daisy C. Gonzales and Carlos H. Conde Mt. Diwalwal is said to hold the Philippines� largest gold deposit, perhaps one of the largest in the world, according to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. There, miners both big and small have found wealth. But with the newfound riches came...

Furor Over JPEPA: Will Davao’s Ban...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Business, Latest Posts on 11 25th, 2006 | 5 Comments

A controversial bilateral trade agreement between the Philippines and Japan promises enormous economic opportunities for Filipinos, among them agricultural producers such as the banana workers and growers in the Davao regions. That, at least, is the Arroyo administration’s line. What they’re not...

An Artists’ Lair in Davao...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Arts & Culture on 11 25th, 2006 | No Comments

PONCE SUITES in Davao City is a cozy nook for art aficionados and budget travelers. A journalist from Davaotoday. com recommended the place when I was looking for affordable lodgings. It is located in the serene Do�a Vicenta Village II in Bajada district. CONTINUE...

Davao Activists Denounce Killings...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Human Rights, Latest Posts, Photographs on 11 17th, 2006 | No Comments

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A Bible for Revenue Makers...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Latest Posts, Politics on 11 14th, 2006 | No Comments

Realistic targets and doable strategies led to surpluses in Gingoog City, writes Davao Today’s Germelina Lacorte in Newsbreak magazine’s special report on Philippine towns and cities that have been found to be managing their resources quite well. �ONCE YOU�RE in Gingoog, you�re connected to the...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Health, Latest Posts, Politics on 11 13th, 2006 | No Comments

Malalag, a town of 33,000 in Davao del Sur province, began charging residents for health services since 1992 after the devolution of health services that left local government leaders scratching their heads over where to find the money to provide adequate health care. Today, the program is being touted as an...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Gender Issues, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Military on 11 13th, 2006 | 1 Comment

The two women NGO workers allegedly abducted and interrogated by the Philippine military in Tulunan, North Cotabato, last week were also sexually abused by soldiers, the women’s group Gabriela said Monday. ...

National Youth Day 2006...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Latest Posts, Religion on 11 13th, 2006 | 52 Comments

The National Youth Day celebration in Davao City, which was organized by the Catholic archdiocese of Davao, ended Saturday evening with colorful presentations and performances by the delegates. More than 7,000 youths from all over the country, including non-Catholics, participated in the four-day event,...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Commentary, Human Rights, Terrorism on 11 12th, 2006 | 1 Comment

The idea of terrorism is extended to several forms of social fight and protest. Dissident political and trade union opinions become criminalized. An environment movement such as Greenpeace or animal rights activist is even prosecuted as terrorist in some countries. Lawyer Raf Jespers of the Progressive...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Education, Human Rights, Latest Posts on 11 12th, 2006 | No Comments

The University of the Philippines (UP) as the premier academic institution in the country remains one of the bulwarks of academic freedom. But its students are being harassed and military and police forces are intensifying surveillance operations inside the campus. Reyna Mae Tabbada reports for Bulatlat. ...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in News Analysis, Politics on 11 12th, 2006 | No Comments

Both the Democrats and Republicans come from the same corporate elite which exerts a strong influence on U.S. foreign policy. They may differ on some domestic issues but they are of the same mold with regard to America�s global trade, investment and security objectives. ...

News Analysis: Indicting Bush...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in News Analysis, Politics on 11 12th, 2006 | No Comments

The result of the U.S. midterm elections is not so much a vote for the Democrats although it catapulted them to the majority position after 14 years. It is more of an indictment of the Bush administration, specifically its policy on Iraq and the war on terror, its incompetence in managing the disaster...

‘Abduction,’ ‘Harassme...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Human Rights, Latest Posts, Military on 11 12th, 2006 | No Comments

A prestigious Swiss development organization protested last week the Nov. 4 abduction of Lourilie Naiz and Mary Bernadette Solitario, staff workers of the Disaster Response Center Inc. (DIRECT) while on field work in Tulunan, North Cotabato. Soldiers from the 27th and 39th Infantry Battalion of the...

Happy Meal...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Children/Youth, Latest Posts, Photographs on 11 12th, 2006 | No Comments

These streetchildren in Davao City couldn’t contain their glee as they partake of a meal of leftovers given to them by a stranger Sunday morning. According to a survey by the Social Weather Stations, hunger among Filipinos remains high. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry...

Mindanao Nuns Still at It, Condemn ̵...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Human Rights, Latest Posts, Religion on 11 12th, 2006 | No Comments

Catholic nuns in Mindanao have not stopped denouncing the police and the Arroyo regime for the “repression” of Church workers. In statements issued last week, nuns from the Missionary of Sisters of Mary, which was the target of the Nov. 1 police raid in Butuan City, and the Religious of the Good...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Latest Posts on 11 12th, 2006 | No Comments

BUKIDNON — Some 1,000 farmers belonging to at least 13 organizations yesterday set up camp in front of the Region 10 Office of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Cagayan de Oro City to demand that the said department fulfill its commitments on the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Latest Posts, Peace Process on 11 12th, 2006 | 1 Comment

A study on the role of human rights in peace agreements will be launched in Davao City and in Manila next week. The study commissioned by the Geneva-based International Council on Human Rights Policy sought to determine whether a “a fresh and new perspective of human rights in peace agreements”...

Davao Today’s First Anniversary: L...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Latest Posts on 11 6th, 2006 | 2 Comments

We had lofty goals when we thought of publishing Davao Today, which first went online exactly a year ago today. We wanted to present in-depth news and analysis of issues and events. We wanted to be a repository of all available information on Davao City. We wanted to be an alternative source of news. We...