MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN- Davao Today

OFWs face a bleak future as global crisi...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Labor, Latest Posts, OFWS & Migration, Top Stories on 05 15th, 2009 | No Comments

By Marilou Aguirre-Tuburan Davao Today DAVAO CITY — Unlike most of the overseas Filipino workers who lost their jobs in Taiwan, Isabelita Atis, 29, felt relieved when her plane finally touched down at the Davao International Airport in December last year. She was among the 6,468 thousand overseas...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Davao City, Davao Region, Insurgency, Politics, Top Stories on 09 8th, 2008 | No Comments

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN | Davao Today DAVAO CITY � Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte denied giving rice and cash to the Communist New People’s Army (NPA) in the outskirts of Mandug and Callawa in Buhangin district. Speaking in his weekly television program, Duterte said the city has been giving rice...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Business, Economy, Labor, Latest Posts, Top Stories on 07 28th, 2008 | No Comments

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN | Davao Today DAVAO CITY � Edwin Fernandez works as a forklift operator in Davao Goldstar Hardware in Lanang — the biggest hardware store in the city. As a regular worker in the last two years, he works there from Monday to Saturday, and occasionally on Sundays, when a ship...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Crime & Public Safety, Davao City, Extrajudicial Killings, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Top Stories on 05 19th, 2008 | No Comments

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today DAVAO CITY — Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte was furious over rumors that he is protecting Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, the leader of the religious sect Jesus Christ: A Name Above Every Name, whose name was dragged into the slaying of tribal leader Dominador Diarog. In...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Davao Region, Human Rights, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military, Top Stories on 05 12th, 2008 | No Comments

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today After their release from NPA captivity where they were investigated for possible crime against the people, two AFP soldiers now face another investigation from their AFP superiors. Compostela, Compostela Valley — Two army sergeants held prisoners of war (POWS) by the...

Duterte slams “God’s antiqua...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Children/Youth, Davao City, Gender Issues, Health, Latest Posts, Politics, Poverty, Top Stories on 04 27th, 2008 | 2 Comments

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today DAVAO CITY — Davao city Mayor Rodrigo Duterte defended the revised Local Development Plan for Children (LDPC) against questions raised by the Catholic Church on its reproductive health and safe pregnancy program. “God’s policy is antiquated and it...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Davao City, Economy, Latest Posts, Poverty, Top Stories on 04 27th, 2008 | No Comments

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today DAVAO CITY — Beatriz Gaspar, 62, said he has a son in Manila who has 10 children to feed, including a 15-year-old, the eldest. His family consumes five kilos of rice a day. “I am now asking him to return to Davao with his family because life is less...

The State of the City...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Davao City, Latest Posts, Top Stories on 04 21st, 2008 | No Comments

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today On the 71st Araw ng Dabaw, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte refrained from giving the state of the city address, usually done by mayors in the past to apprise the citizens of the state of the city. Instead, he gave the opportunity to leaders and personalities representing the...

Consumer group opposes DCWD’s P100...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Davao City, Latest Posts, Top Stories on 03 15th, 2008 | No Comments

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today DAVAO CITY -Faced by strong opposition from consumer groups, the Davao City Water District (DCWD) refused to attend the second committee hearing of the City Council to discuss the water district’s proposed 100-million peso loan. Instead, the management and board...

Arroyo checks out Bankerohan bridge...

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....

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 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...

Davao’s salesladies are glad they ...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Business, Davao City, Labor, Latest Posts on 02 3rd, 2008 | 1 Comment

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today DAVAO CITY – For eight months now, Marilyn Cabig, 18, has been working as a sales lady at the Gaisano Mall; first, as a watcher in the food court, and later, as sales assistant in the fancy department, where toiletries, cosmetics and trinkets are sold. From the...

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...

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 MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Breaking News, Davao City, Extrajudicial Killings, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Press Freedom Watch on 01 7th, 2008 | No Comments

By Marilou M. AguirreDavao Today DAVAO CITY — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte hinted that a Davao Congressman, who hired retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan as a consultant, must have known something about the killing of Davao broadcaster Ferdinand “Batman” Lintuan. Duterte divulged this in his weekly...

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...

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...

In Duterte’s last term, Davao folk...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Breaking News, Davao City, Latest Posts, Politics, Special Reports on 07 12th, 2007 | 3 Comments

Related stories: Coming soon: Duterte-Nograles showdown in 2010 At City Council, Sara shows why she is her father�s daughter By Marilou M. Aguirre and Cheryll D. Fiel Davao Today DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has served for six consecutive years as mayor. During that time, he...

Davao winners proclaimed...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Breaking News, Davao City on 05 20th, 2007 | 1 Comment

By Marilou M. AguirreDavao Today DAVAO CITY — The wait is over. At exactly 8:10 last night, the Davao City Board of Canvassers (CBOB) proclaimed the winners of the 2007 local elections in this city. ...

Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Davao City on 05 16th, 2007 | No Comments

By Marilou M. AguirreDavao Today DAVAO CITY — The City Board of Canvassers (BOC) in this city has encountered no major problems so far in their second day of canvassing of election returns (ER). As of 11 this morning, the BOC has received a total of 1,279 ERs from the Board of Election Inspectors...