2007 December- Davao Today

Absence of firecrackers marks Davao city...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Breaking News, Davao City, Latest Posts on 12 29th, 2007 | No Comments

By Marilou M. AguirreDavao Today DAVAO CITY — “The celebration here is far different from other Mindanao cities I’ve visited,” confided Dondie Agaton, who sells trinkets outside Davao’s San Pedro Church. While selling his wares in the last 10 years, Agaton, 27, said he has...

Call for justice...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Davao City, Latest Posts, Photographs, Press Freedom Watch on 12 29th, 2007 | No Comments

National Union of Journalists Davao City Chapter prepare armbands for broadcaster Ferdie Lintuan’s burial tomorrow. Lintuan was murdered on the eve of Christmas Day near his radio station dxGO. He is the 5th journalist killed in the Philippines in 2007. (Photo by Keith Bacongco / AKP...

A media statement of condemnation...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Davao City, Latest Posts on 12 27th, 2007 | No Comments

It is with very deep remorse and extreme sadness that we, the officers and members of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP Davao City & Region XI Chapters) in concert with our colleagues from the other media groups collectively condemn today’s brutal slaying of fellow...

Gov’t doing everything possible to...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Davao City, Latest Posts, Press Freedom Watch on 12 27th, 2007 | No Comments

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said today that the government is doing everything possible to solve the killing of Davao radio broadcaster Fernando Lintuan and bring his assassin to justice soonest. A consultant of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) under the Office of the President,...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Davao City, Latest Posts, Politics, Press Freedom Watch on 12 27th, 2007 | No Comments

Davao City � Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte blasted certain politicians in Davao for insinuating that City Hall could have had a hand in the killing of radio broadcaster Fernando “Ferdie” Lintuan. In a press statement, Mayor Duterte said insinuations that Lintuan was killed for his attacks on...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Davao City, Latest Posts, Press Freedom Watch on 12 24th, 2007 | No Comments

We condemn in the strongest way possible the murder of broadcaster Fernando “Batman” Lintuan, the first president of the Davao Sportswriters Association. Initial reports revealed that a gunman riding on a motorcycle shot Mr. Lintuan at close range while he was on board a car leaving his radio...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Military, Mindanao on 12 24th, 2007 | No Comments

Nearly 2,500 Manobo and some Visayan settlers returned to their homes in twelve communities of Surigao Sur on Wednesday after living for a month in overcrowded evacuation centers. “We are so happy to be able to celebrate Christmas in our homes and not in the incomprehensible situation of the...

Jailed broadcaster’s wife fears so...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Latest Posts on 12 24th, 2007 | No Comments

A relative of jailed broadcaster Alexander Adonis has raised fears for his life when a powerful politician who got him convicted of libel had caused his allegedly unwarranted extraction from prison for a purported medical check-up. More than this, the wife of Adonis believes the politician could now also be...

Posted by CHERYLL D. FIEL in Breaking News, Davao City, Economy, Latest Posts on 12 20th, 2007 | No Comments

By Cheryll D. FielDavao Today Joel Basiao, a driver of a passenger jeepney plying Davao city’s route of barangay Puan to Magsaysay Park, said he lost as much as P200 on Thursday for joining the nationwide transport strike. But he said it was just about the same amount that jeepney drivers like him...

People’s Park opens in Davao...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Breaking News, Davao City, Entertainment, Latest Posts, Lifestyle, Photographs, Travel & Leisure on 12 20th, 2007 | 16 Comments

By Marilou M. AguirreDavao Today Old PTA grounds, which used to host athletic meets and sports events in the city, has just been turned into a People’s Park, where one can find a collection of tropical rainforest trees or enjoy a fantasy-themed park with the children, free of charge. Engr. Elisa...

Duterte to seek ‘executive pardon&...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Breaking News, Davao City, Latest Posts, Politics, Press Freedom Watch on 12 18th, 2007 | No Comments

By Marilou M. AguirreDavao Today DAVAO CITY � Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said he is going to seek executive pardon for Alexander “Lex” Adonis, the Davao broadcaster jailed for libel for reporting on the “Burlesque King” scandal, involving Duterte’s political rival, first district...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Environment, Latest Posts on 12 15th, 2007 | No Comments

After seven years of patiently enduring the legal action brought against them by the Lapanday Agricultural and Development Corporation (Ladeco), Dr. Romeo Quijano, president of Pesticide Action Network Philippines, and his daughter Ilang-Ilang were finally acquitted of a civil case of P5.5 million worth of...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Latest Posts, Press Freedom Watch on 12 15th, 2007 | No Comments

The National Press Club of the Philippines (NPC) and Alyansa ng Filipinong Mamamahayag (Afima), has responded to a distress call from a jailed Davao-based broadcaster and vowed to support the latter hurdle his legal woes. Although already convicted, both NPC and Afima leaders said they are willing to provide...

Will Shelter Code solve Davao’s ho...

Posted by CHERYLL D. FIEL in Breaking News, Davao City, Latest Posts, Poverty on 12 15th, 2007 | 2 Comments

By Cheryll D. FielDavao Today After nine months of grueling deliberations, the City Council has prided itself again of passing another landmark law, known as the Comprehensive Urban Shelter and Services Development Code, or the Shelter Code. Finally signed by Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on November 15 this year,...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao Region, Latest Posts on 12 14th, 2007 | No Comments

TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte — The provincial government of Compostela Valley at last has become a legal settler of a property once owned by its mother province, Davao del Norte. Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo P. del Rosario yesterday signed a deed of donation, giving the more than...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Davao City, Latest Posts, Press Freedom Watch on 12 14th, 2007 | No Comments

Mayor Rodrigo Duterte yesterday said that Congressman Prospero Nograles should have acted earlier with regards to the help and assistance he claims to have provided to jailed broadcaster Alexander �Lex� Adonis. Adding that it was the congressman who placed Adonis in the latter�s present predicament as he was...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Latest Posts, Philippines on 12 14th, 2007 | No Comments

THE Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) today urged lawmakers ‘for the best interest of the majority of Filipinos’ to prioritize and pass bills calling for the repeal of Oil Deregulation Law and P125 wage increase for workers before their Christmas break. KMU Chairperson Elmer ‘Ka...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Human Rights, Latest Posts, Military, Mindanao on 12 14th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Butuan City � Unable to deny the massive human rights abuses that drove the now almost 3,000 lumad and settlers to evacuate from more than 12 communities, the military has set its sights on Karapatan who is helping to expose the plight of the Surigao del Sur evacuees. Contrary to what Col. Jose Vizcarra of...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Inbox, Latest Posts on 12 14th, 2007 | No Comments

The crackdown against undocumented workers and migrants in South Korea recently intensified with the arrest of top officials of the Migrants Trade Union officials in that country, says an alliance of groups composed of OFWs and their families. �We strongly condemn the unjust arrest of the...

Abducted ComVal miner tests amparo...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao Region, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Military on 12 14th, 2007 | No Comments

Compostela Valley Province � A kin of Valentin B. Lapus, Jr. who was abducted by the elements of the 25th Infantry Battalion in Purok Mangga, Sitio Baloy, Brgy. Magcagong, Maragusan, Compostela Valley Province last April 24, 2007 filed a petition for the Writ of Amparo today December 12, 2007 at Regional...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Davao City, Human Rights, Inbox, Latest Posts on 12 14th, 2007 | No Comments

By Rep. Luz C. Ilagan Gabriela Women’s Party Privileged speech, December 11, 2007 Mr. Speaker, I rise today on a matter of personal and collective privilege regarding the Batasan Blast, last November 13, 2007. That fateful day will be forever etched in my mind. Session had adjourned at 8:00 in the...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Human Rights, Inbox, Latest Posts, Mindanao on 12 14th, 2007 | No Comments

The Suara Bangsamoro and the Kawagib Moro Human Rights Organizaiton led the commemoration of the 59th year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in different cities in Mindanao. Suara Bangsamoro presented the Report on the Human Rights Violation committed against the Bangsamoro people in...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Inbox, Latest Posts on 12 14th, 2007 | No Comments

Women’s partylist group GABRIELA joined Bayan Muna and Anakpawis in filing a bill that seeks to hold military and police superiors accountable for crimes and human rights violations committed by their subordinates. GABRIELA Women’s Party Representative Liza Largoza Maza said, “we are filing...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Human Rights, Inbox, Latest Posts, Mindanao on 12 14th, 2007 | No Comments

Matag adlaw, matag tuig, matag presidente sa atong nasud, nagdugang ang mga paglapas sa tawhanong katungod ngadto sa katawhan. Gipasamot pa kini sa gilunsad karon sa rehimeng US-GMA nga Oplan Bantay Laya Dos. Karong bag-o, dul-an na sa tulo ka libo ka mag-uuma ug lumad ang napugos sa pagbakwit tungod sa...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Children/Youth, Davao City, Latest Posts on 12 14th, 2007 | No Comments

Davao City � City councilor and Council for the Welfare of Children Davao City chairperson Atty. Angela Librado-Trinidad urged here today all concerned individuals and cause-oriented groups to participate in the efforts to eliminate sources of child trafficking in the city. �The international commemoration...