Press Release April 18, 2012 Davao lawmaker questions medical school’s policies against its nursing graduates Davao City Councilor Leah Librado-Yap…
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By Marilou Aguirre-Tuburan
Small-scale miners and peasants in this town have been up in arms against the no-habitation policy, saying it displaced and deprived them of their livelihood. They reckoned, the move is in favor of big and foreign mining capitalists.
Despite a law banning the commercial importation of used clothing and rags, the selling of imported used clothing and apparel or relief clothes at cheaper prices in the ukay-ukay market continues to proliferate in the country. The booming ukay ukay phenomenon also threatens to suppress the local garments industry.
Usurious schemes and failure of the government to support farmers bury them in a vicious debt cycle. Farmers are left fending for themselves.
The entire Araw ng Dabaw celebration peaked with Friday morning’s civic parade, the biggest so far in the entire charter celebration. It showcased 284 floats from different contingents.
“The power outages are but a way of conditioning the minds of consumers that there is a power crisis,” says North Cotabato Governor Taliño-Mendoza, adding that such conditioning has something to do with the privatization of the remaining government-owned power utilities in Mindanao.
11 March 2012 DavSur women urged to help protect the environment DIGOS CITY, Davao del Sur–Governor Douglas Cagas, during the…
10 March 2012 Contractualization king, 2 princes, country’s top billionaires again – KMU “They’ve got it all from us.” This…
