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...

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...

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 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...

Lakbayan Davao from Davao Today on Vimeo. Davao farmers join the Lakbayan, a nationwide farmers caravan calling for land and justice. The caravan culminated in a long march to Malacañang to remember the farmers killed in Mendiola 23 years ago....

By GRACE S. UDDIN Davao Today DAVAO CITY— A member of the military intelligence group implicated in the Rebelyn Pitao rape- slay case was caught violating the election gun ban. But police released Private First Class Edmar “Ben” Tipait, 50, a member of the military intelligence group after detaining...

THIRTEEN WIDOWS OF JOURNALIST VICTIMS of the November 23 Ampatuan massacre file charges of gross negligence and dereliction of duty against Major General Alfredo Cayton, then commanding officer of the 6th ID of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and Col. Medardo Geslani, the 601st Brigade Commander,...

By GERMELINA LACORTE Davao Today DAVAO CITY—Farmers belonging to the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) set off on Wednesday for a 10-day caravan that will end up in a long march to Malacanang to mark the 23rd year of the farmers’ massacre in Mendiola. Danilo Ramos, KMP secretary-general, said...

By GRACE S. UDDIN Davao Today DAVAO CITY— Winifreda Cabisay, 62, carried a placard during the kick-off ceremony of Lakbayan, a 10-day farmers’ caravan that will bring together farmers from as far as Davao in the south and Tarlac in the north to dramatize their age-old clamor for land and...

LAKBAYAN DAVAO. Marchers burn a copy of Carper Law in front of the office of Speaker Prospero Nograles as part of the send-off ceremony of Lakbayan, the 10-day nationwide caravan that dramatizes the farmers' call for land. (davaotoday.com photo by Jose...

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By GRACE S. UDDIN Davao Today DAVAO CITY— The nationwide farmers’ caravan, calling for land and justice and urging people to oppose Charter change, will kick off on Tuesday in Davao City. Rep. Rafael Mariano of farmers’ partylist Anakpawis said that 7,000 farmers nationwide will join the 10-day caravan...