Posts by tag: davao

11 years ago

Cebu Pacific to comply with CAAP’s decision as two of its pilots are suspended

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Cebu Pacific to comply with CAAP’s decision as two of its pilots are suspended

By DAVAO TODAY

Davao Today

Cebu Pacific was asked to comply with CAAP’s action plan.  This means the former will have to reassess their accountable executives and station managers, hold random sampling of flight crew capabilities as regards unusual situations in the flight simulator, reassess their turn-around time policy and have them grant unrestricted access to CAAP flight inspectors so that the former may conduct heightened performance monitoring. 

11 years ago

Today’s View: The Aglipayan Church in my Hometown

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Today’s View: The Aglipayan Church in my Hometown

By DON J. PAGUSARA

Davao Today

But in the 1970s, at the height of the student movement to which I belonged, I learned about the history of the Aglipayan Church or the Philippine Independent Church founded by Gregorio Aglipay and Isabelo de los Reyes.  I found out, to my remorseful realization, that it was the Church of the Filipino revolutionaries!

11 years ago

Today’s View: A World Class Event

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Today’s View: A World Class Event

By DON J. PAGUSARA

Davao Today

Colonial-mindedness should have been a thing of the past among us Filipinos.  But it seems, the political helmsmen of our government, the educators and cultural policymakers of our society, are just drifting along with the trends set by the Americans.  They should know better than to cater to these hollow circus brands of cultural acts.  These only paint a deprecatory image of ourselves as a people and nation.   

11 years ago

OATH-TAKING

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Bayan Muna Party’s Representative-elect Carlos Isagani Zarate takes oath before Judge Virginia Europa Friday in Garden Oases, Davao City. Behind…

11 years ago

INDIGNATION

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Condemning the worsening education crisis in the Philippines, youth groups from different universities and colleges led by Kabataan Party-list stage…

11 years ago

ALARM

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A traffic enforcer in Davao City issues a violation ticket against a cab driver for illegal terminal, when he parked…

11 years ago

NPA’s Parago declares 5 Army men as Prisoners of war

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By DAVAO TODAY

Davao Today

The NPA said their “active counter-intelligence and subsequent operations” were meant to punish AFP units, especially the Civil Military Operations Battalion headed by Maj. Jake Obligado, for continuing to “encroach, settle and conduct psychological warfare and intelligence operations” in the villages of Paquibato District.

11 years ago

Today’s View: A Story from the Hearth

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Today’s View: A Story from the Hearth

By DON J. PAGUSARA

Davao Today

Education in this country is an elitist enterprise that caters only to the thin stratum of the upper middle classes who can afford, but subjects the grassroots to a buwad smell of literacy enough for them to be able to write the names of politicians in elections.