2007 September- Davao Today

Lawyers say HSA worse than martial law...

Posted by CHERYLL D. FIEL in Extrajudicial Killings, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Military, Photographs, Politics on 09 24th, 2007 | No Comments

During the commemoration of the 35th year of declaration of martial law on Sept. 21, different lawyers’ organizations in Davao City came together at the Centennial Park not only to light candles for judges, lawyers, and paralegals who were victims of the abusive law. They were also there to denounce...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Business, Economy, Inbox, Latest Posts, Mindanao on 09 24th, 2007 | 1 Comment

DAVAO CITY — Investments in Mindanao posted a record increase of 133.8 percent in the first half of the year, mainly due to robust local investments, particularly in the power sector, the government announced Monday. ...

Posted by CARLOS H. CONDE in Breaking News, Corruption, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Latest Posts, Philippines, Politics on 09 24th, 2007 | No Comments

By CARLOS H. CONDE PinoyPress MANILA — Six years ago, Senator Teofisto Guingona stood at the lectern of the Philippine Senate and accused then president Joseph Estrada of corruption. Like the French novelist Emile Zola’s ”J’Accuse!” open letter in the Dreyfus Affair, the...

Arroyo’s days of reckoning...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Commentary, Latest Posts, Opinion, Philippines, Politics on 09 24th, 2007 | No Comments

By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy (PSPA) Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) MANILA — The conviction of former President Joseph E. Estrada of plunder by the Sandiganbayan last Sept. 13 does not necessarily show that the criminal justice system and presidential...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Extrajudicial Killings, Human Rights, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military, Philippines, Press Freedom Watch on 09 22nd, 2007 | No Comments

This short film, by the independent filmmaker Jon Red, is one of the public service advertisements on extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in the Philippines that were banned for public exhibition by government censors, who said these films “are presented unfairly, one-sided and...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Human Rights, Inbox, Latest Posts, Military, Mindanao on 09 22nd, 2007 | No Comments

Martial Law still exists in Mindanao, particularly in Moro areas under the pretext of pulverizing terrorists. Thirty-five years later, the public is still being made to believe that the terrorist scare justifies anti-people measures like the Human Security Act and all-out war in Moro communities, even...

Ramadan giveaway...

Posted by BARRY OHAYLAN in Davao City, Latest Posts, Photographs, Religion on 09 22nd, 2007 | No Comments

Mayor Rodrigo Duterte hands a package of food to Muslim leaders at a mosque in Ecoland last week. Giving out food to Moro communities in Davao City during the Ramadan has been a yearly practice of the mayor. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Davao City, Davao Region, Human Rights, Inbox, Latest Posts, Military, Mindanao on 09 22nd, 2007 | No Comments

DAVAO CITY — Citing incidents in Koronadal, South Cotabato and Sumilao, Bukidnon, eighteen lawyers� organizations under the coalition Alternative Law Groups Inc. (ALG), slammed the Human Security Act of 2007 (R.A. 9372) for further threatening the already vulnerable poor communities nationwide. ...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Business, Davao City, Labor, Latest Posts on 09 22nd, 2007 | No Comments

A Davao City councilor, Edgar Ibuyan, has filed a proposed ordinance that would regulate the practice by employers of putting out advertisements about the termination or separation from service of their employees. There have been complaints that these ads, which implies that the employee had committed a...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Inbox, Latest Posts, Media, Military, Mindanao, Press Freedom Watch on 09 22nd, 2007 | No Comments

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines is alarmed over reports that no less than the chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines has prevented a reporter from covering legitimate news events in Mindanao, particularly in the province of Basilan. ...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Children/Youth, Davao City, Extrajudicial Killings, Human Rights, Inbox, Latest Posts, Politics on 09 3rd, 2007 | No Comments

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PHILIPPINES: Police and prosecutor’s failure emboldens killings of alleged criminals In recent months several dead bodies had been found in the streets of Manila with placards about their necks or bodies suggesting that they were criminals. When two...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Environment, Human Rights, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military, Mindanao on 09 3rd, 2007 | No Comments

DAVAO CITY, Philippines �- An increasing number of human-rights violations in Mindanao are being committed by members or leaders of Lumad tribes (indigenous peoples), victimizing not just ordinary civilians but also their own people, a tribal group said Sunday. ...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Children/Youth, Human Rights, Inbox, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military, Mindanao, Peace Process on 09 2nd, 2007 | No Comments

DAVAO CITY — Once again, Moro civilians, and particularly children, are casualties of this latest government all-out war campaign in Sulu and Basilan. Government statistics show that 24,000 residents from both islands have fled from their homes from the offensives since August. Most of these evacuees...

‘Surface Jimmy Rosios!’...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Davao Region, Human Rights, Inbox, Latest Posts on 09 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment

On this day of the desaparecidos, Anakpawis �SOCSKSARGEN calls for the immediate surfacing of abducted labor leader Jaime �Jimmy� Rosios. Rosios, a Board Member of Yellow Bus Lines Employees Union, and a vocal critic of the YBL management�s unfair labor practices, was abducted by armed men aboard a...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Economy, Inbox, Latest Posts, Philippines on 09 2nd, 2007 | No Comments

DAVAO CITY — Bayan Muna negated here today the recent pronouncement of Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of posting the alleged highest economic growth in 20 years saying that the �fake president is at it again, executing a grand sham design to divert public animosity over the new revelations of the Hello...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Economy, Inbox, Latest Posts on 09 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment

DAVAO CITY — Kilusang Mayo Uno-Southern Mindanao Region today slammed Gloria Arroyo�s declaration that her administration�s plans for the economy has succeeded, saying the hard-up Filipino people will be the first ones to negate her preposterous claim. ...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Economy, Inbox, Latest Posts, OFWS & Migration, Philippines on 09 2nd, 2007 | No Comments

MANILA — Contrary to Vice-President Noli de Castro�s assertion that the growing number of Filipinos employed abroad was proof of an economic boom � an alliance of overseas Filipino groups said the rising number of OFWs underline a worsening Philippine economy. ...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Business, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Philippines on 09 2nd, 2007 | 2 Comments

MANILA �- Does the increasing number of Dutch investments in the Philippines have anything to do with the arrest last week in the Netherlands of Filipino communist leader Jose Maria Sison? Sison�s supporters in the Philippines certainly think so. Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran, in a statement on Saturday,...

Posted by GERMELINA A. LACORTE in Breaking News, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Philippines on 09 2nd, 2007 | No Comments

By Germelina A. LacorteDavao Today DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Prospect for peace talks between the government and Communist-led National Democratic Front (NDF) dims with the arrest of Communist party founder Jose Maria Sison by Dutch authorities last week. ...

Posted by GERMELINA A. LACORTE in Breaking News, Business, Economy, Latest Posts, Mindanao, Trade on 09 2nd, 2007 | No Comments

By Germelina A. LacorteDavao Today DAVAO CITY, Philippines — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has set aside $600,000 to finance the streamlining of customs rules and procedures in the four countries of the East Asean Growth Area (Eaga), namely Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, Customs...