2008 January- Davao Today

Another Duterte wants an ID system in th...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Breaking News, Davao City, Latest Posts on 01 30th, 2008 | No Comments

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today DAVAO CITY — Association of Barangay Councils (ABC) president Paolo Duterte, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s eldest son, wants an identification (ID) system in place in each of the city barangays (villages). Davao has a total of 182 barangays under three...

Remembering Mendiola...

Posted by BARRY OHAYLAN in Latest Posts, Photographs, Photos-Right on 01 29th, 2008 | No Comments

On the 20th year of the massacre that killed 13 protesting farmers in Mendiola, farmers in Davao city stage a rally at the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) regional office, demanding the passage of the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill (HB 3059), authored by AnakPawis Partylist Rep. Crispin Beltran, which...

Tattoo art...

Posted by BARRY OHAYLAN in Latest Posts, Photographs, Photos-Left on 01 29th, 2008 | No Comments

A tattoo artist samples his unique design on a young man’s back and arms during the night of tattoo art and music, participated by live bands, at the Durian Bar inside Madrazo Compound on Ponciano Reyes street. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry...

Posted by BARRY OHAYLAN in Davao City, Latest Posts, Photographs on 01 29th, 2008 | No Comments

A Hug for the Priest Killer of Cotabato. Norberto Manero, the newly released killer of Italian priest Tulio Favali, is greeted with a hug by a relative at the Davao International Airport on Monday afternoon. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry...

Goodbye, Fr. Paul Cunanan...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Latest Posts on 01 29th, 2008 | No Comments

Davao priest Fr. Paul Cunanan died of a heart failure at 3 p.m. of January 19, this year. He was 68. Fr. Cunanan was at the doctor for a check-up at the Mindanao Heart Center, where he was confined and scheduled for a heart operation, when he gave in after to a cardiac arrest. Since 2004 until his death, he...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao Region, Inbox, Latest Posts on 01 29th, 2008 | No Comments

Various line agencies are addressing major bottlenecks for the completion of infrastructure projects lined up under the Mindanao Super Region before 2010, according to a statement from the Mindanao Economic Development Council (Medco). In a recent inter-agency meeting, the Department of Public Works and...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao Region, Human Rights, Inbox, Insurgency, Latest Posts on 01 29th, 2008 | No Comments

Military operations in the hinterlands of Talaingod town, Davao del Norte, are displacing Ata-Manobo families. The lumads (indigenous peoples) of 17 villages; namely: Tibukag, Purok 31, Paiton, Purok 17, Dalingding, Tibugaw, Natampod, Labuo, Duryan, Tambuko, Mahindang, Nalubas, Lasakan, Sasu, Bagang,...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Latest Posts, Press Freedom Watch on 01 29th, 2008 | No Comments

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines is alarmed over statements made by authorities that a journalist supposedly aided fugitive Marine Capt. Nicanor Faeldon escape after the November 29 Makati standoff. Especially worrisome is the way authorities are releasing information � tantamount to...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Latest Posts, Press Freedom Watch on 01 29th, 2008 | No Comments

Members of the Philippine press are gearing up to fight back against unrelenting harassments being conducted by the Philippine National Police (PNP) against their ranks. In a meeting last Monday organized by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), members of the media resolved to file...

Posted by GERMELINA A. LACORTE in Breaking News, Davao City, Davao Region, Latest Posts, Special Reports on 01 29th, 2008 | 2 Comments

No Fans of Bananas. Japanese pastors support their Filipino counterparts in speaking against JPEPA at the end of the five-day bilateral conference between their group, the National Christian Churches of Japan and the National Council of Churches of the Philippines. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao Region, Latest Posts on 01 29th, 2008 | No Comments

Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur � The indigenous people Bagobo-Tagabawa are opposing the ongoing construction of hydropower plant in Tudaya by the Aboitiz-owned Hydro Electric Development Corporation (HEDCOR). “HEDCOR violates our rights. As indigenous peoples, we have the inherent right to our ancestral...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Latest Posts on 01 29th, 2008 | 3 Comments

THE lowly malunggay, which is being eyed by the Department of Agriculture (DA) as a solution to hunger, poverty and chronic malnutrition suffered by women and children in the country, is now also being considered as a potential source of biofuel. At least two government agencies will seriously look...

Posted by GERMELINA A. LACORTE in Davao City, Environment, Latest Posts on 01 29th, 2008 | 2 Comments

By Germelina A. LacorteDavao Today After hearing about the successful launch of the e-jeepney in Makati, Davao officials are excited about the prospects of electric-powered cars, saying it could lessen the country’s dependence on gasoline. Both Councilors Pilar Braga, chair of the committee on energy...

Posted by GERMELINA A. LACORTE in Davao City, Latest Posts, Politics on 01 29th, 2008 | No Comments

By Germelina A. LacorteDavao Today DAVAO CITY—Mayor Rodrigo Duterte thumbs down initial moves to entice him to run for the Senate under the slate of Lakas-NUCD when his third term as mayor finally ends in 2010. “I don’t have the slightest intention to run for Senator nor to work as an...

�Alston�s report will not stop me� ̵...

Posted by GERMELINA A. LACORTE in Davao City, Human Rights, Latest Posts on 01 29th, 2008 | No Comments

By Germelina A. LacorteDavao Today DAVAO CITY — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ordered no let up against drugs and crime syndicates despite criticisms from international human rights groups and the report by United Nations (UN) rapporteur Philip Alston on extra-judicial killings. Duterte said Alston�s report...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Business, Davao Region, Latest Posts on 01 20th, 2008 | No Comments

AT LEAST two small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Davao Oriental are now being developed to readily compete during the National Trade Fair (NTF) set next year. The NTF is regarded as among the top and tough trade exhibits organized annually by the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Davao Region, Latest Posts on 01 20th, 2008 | 1 Comment

As the debate over the Biofuels Act gets hyped in the Senate, the militant farmers group, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas � Southern Mindanao Region, pitches-in its piece on the issue. �Foreign-funded Jathropa plantations are encroaching on agricultural lands and it only adds to the existing laws and...

Is Sara Duterte testing the waters?...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Breaking News on 01 20th, 2008 | No Comments

By Marilou M. Aguirre Davao Today DAVAO CITY–As if daring the groups opposed to it, vice mayor Sara Duterte said she is in favor of the hotly-debated national ID system, pronounced by the Supreme Court as “unconstitutional” in 1998, but recently revived by the Armed Forces of the...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Latest Posts, Mindanao on 01 20th, 2008 | No Comments

Cites unresolved issues of rights violation in previous Balikatan The Moro partylist organization Suara Bangsamoro calls for the government to stop the holding of Balikatan in Sulu and Basilan slated on February this year, says that previous Balikatan held in the two provinces have left issues of human...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Latest Posts on 01 13th, 2008 | No Comments

The Kilusang Mayo Uno-Southern Mindanao region today expressed apprehension over the proposed revival of the National ID System, saying that �the measure will backtrack the hard-won victories of human rights as this fascist administration continues its hopeless witch hunt, all the while victimizing innocent...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Children/Youth, Davao City, Latest Posts on 01 13th, 2008 | No Comments

Davao City– Gabriela today lambasted the dismissal of the rape case filed by 16-year old “Emily” against six men in July last year. In a resolution filed last January 4, the Office of the City Prosecution dismissed the case “for lack of probable cause that the crime of rape has been...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Extrajudicial Killings, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Philippines on 01 13th, 2008 | No Comments

By the Asian Human Rights Commission HONGKONG — At the height of the escalating incidents of the murder of activists, there was strong condemnation, both within and outside the country that forced the government to do something to stop the killing. Now that the number of killings has declined,...

Bayan’s worst-case scenario: P50 p...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Latest Posts, Philippines on 01 13th, 2008 | No Comments

Unless government removes the 12 percent value added tax (VAT) on oil and repeal the Oil Deregulation Law, the country is facing as much as P50 per liter in gasoline prices and more than P700 in LPG retail prices by the end of the year, umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) disclosed. Simulations...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Inbox, Latest Posts on 01 13th, 2008 | No Comments

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino �Nene� Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) said he believes that Congress will back a Malaca�ang call for amending the 1987 Constitution to pave the way for the adoption of a Federal System of Government to break the prolonged impasses in the government�s peace talks with the...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Breaking News, Latest Posts, Philippines on 01 13th, 2008 | No Comments

Workers in Japanese corporations based in Southern Tagalog expressed opposition to the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA). They deemed that their situation will get worse if JPEPA is ratified. According to a study by Pagkakaisa ng Manggagawa sa Timog Katagalugan (Pamantik- Southern...