2008 February- Davao Today

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Davao City, Latest Posts, Photographs on 02 28th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Despite the drizzle, some 200 people await the arrival of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for over an hour near Gov. Generoso I bridge in Bankerohan. The President barely stays five minutes before leaving for the gathering of town mayors at Grand Regal Hotel. (davaotoday.com photo by Marilou M....

Anti-US rally in Davao...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Photographs on 02 21st, 2008 | No Comments

Anti-US Sentiment. Evelyn Carias, Moro community leader, speaks before the crowd of around 1,000 activists who marched around the major streets of Davao City on Feb. 18 to protest the holding of joint RP-US military exercises in key areas in Mindanao. The protesters also condemned the alleged involvement...

Lovers’ park...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Latest Posts, Photographs on 02 21st, 2008 | No Comments

A couple savoring moments together at Davao city’s new People’s Park. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)...

Chinese New Year in Davao...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Latest Posts, Photographs on 02 21st, 2008 | No Comments

The “lion guide” prepares both the lion — and the dragon — before the start of the Chinese lunar New Year parade in Davao city’s Chinatown. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay) Complete with streamers and red t-shirts Chinese Filipinos in Davao Chinatown gamely join the...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao Region, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military, Peace Process on 02 21st, 2008 | No Comments

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today TAGUM CITY — Government insists on a ceasefire before it can resume the stalled peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales said. “There must be a cessation of hostilities first,”...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Davao Region, Environment, Health, Latest Posts on 02 21st, 2008 | No Comments

Wearing red shirts, members of the Mamayan Ayaw sa Aerial Spraying (Maas) delivered more than a hundred flowers to associate justices of the Court of Appeals Branch 22 in Cagayan de Oro City on Valentines Day. The flowers, Maas said, symbolized their appeal for the associate justices to �show their love,� by...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Latest Posts, Military, Mindanao on 02 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment

U.S. Troops Out Now! – Lanao Coalition (Out Now! – Lanao) condemns the intimidation tactics employed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines during a forum at the Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology in Iligan City. Major Benedicto Manquiquis, PA and his cohorts...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Latest Posts on 02 21st, 2008 | No Comments

The National Food Authority announced the February 8 arrival of some 283,000 bags of MV Thai Binh rice imports, 25 percent of which are broken long grain Vietnam rice. The rice imports, scheduled for unloading at the TEFASCO Wharf in Tibungco, will beef-up the supply of rice in the city and its neighboring...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Health, Latest Posts on 02 21st, 2008 | No Comments

The Davao Doctors Hospital recently purchased a state-of-the-art Siemens Axiom Artis Cath Lab System, a cardiac diagnostic equipment that can detect whether a patient needs to perform Angiogram, Angioplasty, and Heart By-Pass. “It’s a 46 million peso (piece of) equipment that we purchased to...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Davao Region, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military on 02 14th, 2008 | 4 Comments

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today TAGUM CITY — National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales proposed two possible ways to defeat the Communist rebellion by 2010: first is to craft a really good local government counter-insurgency strategy, or to extend the term of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo....

Posted by BARRY OHAYLAN in Davao City, Latest Posts, Politics on 02 12th, 2008 | 5 Comments

Early Bird? This barangay ID card, which contains the photo and personal information (such as address, blood type, height, SSS, TIN and contact numbers) of the holder is already being distributed in the city barangays of Catalunan Grande and Wilfredo Aquino. The cards issued to residents include the photo...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Latest Posts on 02 12th, 2008 | No Comments

Davao City � Wearing white shirts printed with “no to water privatization,” some 20 leaders of Consumers Alert! (CA) trooped to the City Council or Sangguniang Panglungsod (SP) to urge councilors to bar the DCWD management from acquiring a 100-million peso loan that will accelerate the...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Business, Crime & Public Safety, Davao City, Insurgency, Latest Posts on 02 12th, 2008 | No Comments

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today DAVAO CITY – Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said he is backing government soldiers in their pursuit against the Communist New People’s Army (NPA) after the killing of the Davao businessman Vicente Solis Ferrazini a week ago. This developed as the NPA owned up to the...

AFP forecast of NPA defeat baseless...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao Region, Inbox, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military on 02 12th, 2008 | No Comments

Notwithstanding the self-serving projection of Gen. Hermogenes Esperon about the impending defeat of the revolutionary forces due to the Armed Forces of the Philippine’s Oplan Bantay Laya campaign, recent incidents in Southern Mindanao and elsewhere underscore the reality of the opposite and provide an...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao Region, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military on 02 8th, 2008 | 33 Comments

HOT SPOT. These soldiers had a grand time browsing pornographic websites during the first day of the Local Peace and Security Assembly (LPSA) in Tagum City’s Bulwagan ng Lalawigan on Thursday, while National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales was delivering a speech. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao Region, Latest Posts, Photographs on 02 8th, 2008 | 14 Comments

National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales talks about the challenge of peace to the local government officials during the Local Peace and Security Assembly for Davao region on February 7 at the Bulwagan ng Lalawigan in Tagum City. Gonzales said that he doesn’t know if the Arroyo government can...

My affair with tikoy...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Arts & Culture, Davao City, Latest Posts on 02 8th, 2008 | No Comments

By CJ Kuizon | Davao Today I should have known not to judge a meal from how it looked before it was cooked. Good ol’ tikoy should have taught me that. My involvement with tikoy has been fairly recent. Tikoy! Cooked to golden-brown perfection. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay) Tikoy is the...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Health, Latest Posts on 02 8th, 2008 | 1 Comment

The increase in the number of people with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is alarming. The Department of Health (DOH) reports that cardio-vascular diseases, an NCD, were Davao City’s number one killer last year. Three other NCDs were also among the top ten killers in the city. Dr....

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Latest Posts on 02 8th, 2008 | No Comments

The barge from Manila loaded with complete materials and equipment for the rebuilding of Governor Generoso I bridge in Bankerohan has finally arrived, signaling the start of much-awaited repairs. A portion of the Bankerohan bridge collapsed in April last year, prompting the city government to demolish it,...

Posted by BARRY OHAYLAN in Davao City, Latest Posts, Photographs on 02 7th, 2008 | No Comments

Members of the urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) fear that the barangay ID system already in place in two Davao city barangays may pave the way for the approval of the national ID system in the country. The urban poor group holds a picket February 6 along San Pedro street, saying...

How Davao folk view Nograles’s ris...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Latest Posts, Politics on 02 7th, 2008 | 1 Comment

By Marilou Aguirre, CK Kuizon and Germelina Lacorte Early this week, the rise of Congressman Prospero Nograles as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, considered to be the fourth most powerful post in the land, drew mixed reaction from among the people of Davao city, where he has been perceived...

The rise of Prospero Nograles...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Latest Posts, Politics on 02 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Davao City Rep. Prospero Nograles has been chosen the new speaker of the House of Representatives. The Davao City native, a true-blue Atenean, has come a long way, indeed. But who is he? What makes him tick? Why is he considered a “lapdog” of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo? Here are some...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Education, Latest Posts, Photographs, Photos-Left on 02 3rd, 2008 | 1 Comment

WALK OUT. Students from leading universities–the Ateneo de Davao, the University of Mindanao, the University of the Philippines-Mindanao and the University of Southeastern Philippines (USP)–trooped to the streets on Friday to protest what they refer as “commercialization” of...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao Region, Latest Posts, Mindanao on 02 3rd, 2008 | No Comments

Farmers from Bukidnon and Davao Oriental joined some 3,000 farmers in the country to protest against what they call as �weak leadership� of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) that led to the slow implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The farmers demanded for an immediate...

Students protest ‘commercializatio...

Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Children/Youth, Education, Latest Posts on 02 3rd, 2008 | No Comments

Cotabato City- Students from Cotabato City State Polytechnic College (CCSPC) stage a mass walkout to condemn the commercialization of education. The symbolic protest is part of the student’s ongoing protest in state colleges and universities (SUCs) in Southern Mindanao. About 200 students from the...