BOODLE FIGHT. Senatorial candidates Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza dine with the masses at the Agdao public market during the March 3 campaign visit of the Nacionalista Party in Davao City. (davaotoday.com photo by Jose Hernani)...

By GERMELINA LACORTE Davao Today DAVAO CITY—Top executives of the country’s second biggest power distribution firm warned of much longer brown-outs in Mindanao as the declining water level of Agus and Pulangi rivers further push down Mindanao’s power generation capacity by about half of the island’s...

LUMAD CULTURE AND HERITAGE. Lumad members of the Katribu partylist presents the indigenous songs and dance at the Peoples Park. The cultural presentation hopes to remind the people of the significance of the indigenous people's culture and heritage. The Katribu partylist will participate in the May 2010...

Lawyer Danilo Cullo, Commission on Elections first district officer, talks about the basics of the automated elections that every Filipino should know when they cast their votes on May 10, 2010. Cullo’s talk is part of the radio segment, “Hisgutanang Nag-Pakapaka (Panglawas, Kalingawan,Panginabuhian...

UNDESIRABLES. Members of progressive groups in Davao City laud the resolution of the City Council declaring partylist representatives Jovito Palparan, Jr. and Jun Alcover personae non gratae for allegedly "ruining the city’s good reputation on peace and order." Palparan has earned the moniker...

By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today DAVAO CITY– Police and the Task Force Davao are putting up mobile checkpoints to secure the entire city against threats after the discovery of two improvised explosive devices in two separate downtown areas on Thursday, February 26. A man leaving a package at the counter...

The office of Councilor Angela Librado-Trinidad, along with Bayan Muna (People First) political party, has initiated poll automation seminars as early as October of last year to orient voters in different puroks and barangays on this year’s automated elections. The poll automation briefing is aimed at...

“It was a statement against me, all aimed to embarrass me.” This was how Mayor Rodrigo Duterte summed up the two botched bomb attacks on Davao City on Thursday. Continue...

House Speaker and Davao City mayoral candidate yesterday monopolized the first local election forum, declaring that his peace and order program would not be limited to small fries in the criminal community. Continue...

By Media Mindanao News Service News Digest Volume 1, August 1987-July 1988 Posted by Davao Today ILIGAN CITY (MMNS/September 30, 1987) – A Muslim alliance in Lanao campaigning for the restoration of capital punishment for “five serious offenses” has demanded the revocation of Marawi as Islamic...

MANILA — Since Camille, not her real name, left for Saudi Arabia in May 14, 2009, she has encountered numerous hardships one after another. Barely three months into her job as a janitor in a dental clinic in Dammam, Camille was raped by her Bangladeshi coworker. She got pregnant as a result. Accused of...

MANILA — “Is Jakatia still alive?” Migrante International, the progressive group that advocates the rights of overseas Filipino workers, asked this question last week, referring to Jakatia Pawa, an overseas Filipino worker who had been sentenced to die in Kuwait. On Jan. 19, Kuwait’s highest court...

MANILA — “It is cold in Macau,” Herman Vendiola, 52, said before recalling his life in the gambling capital of Asia. In some ways, he said, the thought of the climate there heightens his sense of dread each time he speaks about what he and others had to go through. Vendiola left his home in Pagbilao,...

By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today DAVAO CITY – “Nakasabot ko unsa ilang gibati (I understand how they feel),” Cris Tony Monzon, 18-year-old son of murdered activist leader Ludenio Monzon said when he saw the families of the victims of the Ampatuan massacre. Now a member of the group Hustisya (Justice),...

DAVAO CITY– The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance) welcomed the City Council’s resolution declaring Jovito Palparan and Pastor Jun Alcover as persona-non-grata in Davao, saying that the group will remain vigilant against the escalation of harassment and threats knowing the notorious...

TESTING. People gather at the Brokenshire College auditorium on February 18, this year to see how the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machine works. (davaotoday.com photo by Jose...

By GRACE S. UDDIN Davao Today DAVAO CITY— A teacher’s group in the region is worried over the delays on the teachers’ scheduled training on poll automation. Gloria Arcenas, secretary-general of Kamkem-Alliance of Concerned Teachers, said teachers who will serve as Board of Election Inspectors in the...

LEGACY TOUR. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo talks about the Surigao-Davao Coastal Road, which will cut by half the eight hour travel time between the eastern towns of Bacuag, Surigao del Norte and Mati, Davao Oriental. Arroyo was in Davao City on Tuesday as part of her legacy tour in the country. ...

LOVE AT PEOPLES PARK. Lovers, friends and families choose to spend their Valentine's day at the People's park in Davao City. (davaotoday.com...

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The body of Tamano Kamindan Mamalapat, an alleged hit man of the Ampatuan clan is taken out of Gaisano Citimall (former JS Gaisano) in Davao City.  Mamalapat was shot at around 7 p.m., Thursday by one of the police escorts of the Ampatuans’ political rival Esmael “Toto”Mangudadatu who is...

By GRACE S. UDDIN Davao Today DAVAO CITY—Three problems cropped up during the mock elections at the Generoso Elementary School in Bago Aplaya village in Davao City on February 6, Saturday. The first problem occurred when a ballot jammed inside the Precinct Count Optical Scanning machine (PCOS). Upon...

By GINGGING AVELLANOSA- VALLE Davao Today Relief assistance for people displaced by the fighting between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Maguindanao has come to a halt after the massacre that killed 58 people, 32 of them journalists, in the town of Ampatuan on November 23 last...

TWO MONTHS AFTER. Families of Ampatuan victims gather around the massacre site in sitio Masalay, Barangay Salman, Ampatuan town in Maguindanao. Lawyers, human rights advocates, representatives from Christian and Muslim faiths join the national Interfaith Mission for Peace and Justice to offer prayers,...

By GERMELINA LACORTE Davao Today DAVAO CITY—“Malacañang could not wash its hands off the Ampatuan massacre because the state is obliged to prevent such things,” said Lawyer Harry Roque, who represented the 13 widows of journalist victims of the Ampatuan massacre in the filing of cases before the...