CJ KUIZON- Davao Today

Ondoy opens new market for Davao vegetab...

Posted by CJ KUIZON in * News & Features, Business, Davao City, Latest Posts on 10 31st, 2009 | No Comments

By CJ KUIZON Davao Today DAVAO CITY (davaotoday.com) � The onset of typhoons in Metro Manila, which choked up major roads from surrounding provinces, had temporarily opened up a market for Davao�s vegetables. Shortly after the tropical storm Ondoy (international name Ketsana) and super typhoon Pepeng...

Gold in Lumad Literature...

Posted by CJ KUIZON in Top Stories on 09 14th, 2009 | No Comments

By CJ KUIZON Davao Today In one of their stories of long ago, the Mansaka, an indigenous tribe from the provinces of Davao del Norte and Compostela Valley, once possessed a golden guitar, which they played when they sang their songs of longing, aspirations and victory. But as time went by, they realized...

EU calls for the resumption of talks...

Posted by CJ KUIZON in Latest Posts, Top Stories on 09 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

By CJ KUIZON Davao Today DAVAO CITY — A European Union (EU) envoy urged both the government and armed insurgent groups to look for more options to get the stalled peace negotiations back on track. “It (peace negotiations) didn’t work, so far; so, they need to do more,” said Johan...

Celebrities want a better President...

Posted by CJ KUIZON in Entertainment, Latest Posts, Top Stories on 08 17th, 2009 | No Comments

By CJ Kuizon Davao City DAVAO CITY � Even celebrities recently in town for the Western Union-sponsored concert here wanted the “right” President elected in 2010. “Please, let’s choose the right President,” pop singer Christian Bautista suddenly blurted out in the middle of the...

Posted by CJ KUIZON in * News & Features, Business, Davao City, Davao Region, Economy, Latest Posts, Mindanao, Top Stories on 08 5th, 2009 | No Comments

By CJ KUIZON Davao Today A miniature of the Birmingham building, Camella Northpoint’s second building within the condominium complex. (davaotoday.com photo) DAVAO CITY — Even before actual construction could begin, Camella Homes has already sold 90 percent of all its units in the first building...

Posted by CJ KUIZON in * News & Features, Davao City, Election, Latest Posts, Politics, Top Stories on 07 5th, 2009 | No Comments

By CJ KUIZON Davao Today DAVAO CITY — Scholars of House Speaker Prospero Nograles, the Davao City first district Representative, are worried. When the congressman steps down after his last term in 2010, they fear that funds for the scholarship program “Oplan Kaalam” will also end. So,...

Posted by CJ KUIZON in Economy, Latest Posts, Top Stories on 06 14th, 2009 | No Comments

By CJ Kuizon Davao Today DAVAO CITY � The city government is borrowing money from the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) to finance its �stimulus� package supposedly to cushion the impact of the global economic crisis on the local economy. Lawyer Wendell Avisado, city administrator, said the 2.8 billion...

DOH to train more birth attendants...

Posted by CJ KUIZON in Health, Latest Posts, Top Stories on 05 25th, 2009 | No Comments

By CJ KUIZON Davao Today Davao City — The health department hopes to decrease by 75 percent the number of mothers who die during childbirth by increasing its pool of skilled birth attendants in the region. The Department of Health (DOH) has secured national funding for the Maternal Newborn, Child...

Posted by CJ KUIZON in Labor, Latest Posts, Top Stories on 05 15th, 2009 | No Comments

By CJ KUIZON Davao Today DAVAO CITY � The Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) in Southern Mindanao is wary of the proposal to amend the Constitution to open up the country�s resources to foreign companies, saying such proposal will only result to unfair working conditions for workers. Arman Blas�, KMU-Southern Mindanao...

Posted by CJ KUIZON in Davao Region, Human Rights, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military, Top Stories on 10 21st, 2008 | No Comments

By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today Sitio Valma of Barangay Ngan in the municipality of Compostela used to be a thriving logging community in the 1970s up to the 1990s. When the company’s timber logging agreement (TLA) expired, Consuelo Valderrama, its owner, chose not to renew the contract, signalling the...

Posted by CJ KUIZON in Davao City, Davao Region, Latest Posts, Top Stories on 06 20th, 2008 | No Comments

By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today Davao City — Farmers groups here are dismayed over the extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) until December 31. In an interview, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas – southern Mindanao vice chairperson Pedro Arnado called for the scrapping of CARP...

Posted by CJ KUIZON in Business, Davao City, Latest Posts, Lifestyle, Top Stories on 05 19th, 2008 | 3 Comments

By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today DAVAO CITY — A favorite anecdote of those in the business of selling Havaianas was the story of how a fisherman fell in love with these Brazilian flip-flops when it officially arrived in Mindanao, wearing his first pair while hauling fish at the Cagayan de Oro public...

Lanikai Resort: Tagum’s heaven by ...

Posted by CJ KUIZON in Davao Region, Latest Posts, Lifestyle, Top Stories, Travel & Leisure on 05 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today Nestled along the coastline of Barangay Madaum, a mere 15 minutes away from the center of Tagum City, is Lanikai Resort. Lanikai is Hawaiian for ‘heaven by the sea’. Indeed, many think that the place is just this side of the garden of Eden, the biblical home of Adam...