Yearly Archives: 2006

Davao’s Nograles Taking Heat for Role in ‘Tyrannical’ Cha-Cha Attempt

Rep. Prospero Nograles Sneaky Boy: Nograles plays a key role in “the massacre of the Constitution.” (photo from www.nograles.net)

House majority floorleader Rep. Prospero Nograles of Davao City has been getting a lot of flak (here, here, here, and here) for his key role in the push for charter change and what has been routinely described this week as a “massacre of the Constitution” in the Philippine Congress, which Nograles and his partymates did — tyrannically, according to many — even while the country was still shell-shocked by the effects of typhoon Reming and other concerns. As the country hosts the 12th Asean Summit in Cebu, and as the people’s attention is focused on the event, Arroyo’s men in Congress have vowed that they will not stop the Cha-cha train.

Activists protesting in front of Nograles's office in Davao Activists protest in front of Nograles’s office in Davao City on Friday.

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Davao Activists to Join 20,000 Others in Cebu for Anti-Asean Protests

Activists from Bayan, Bayan Muna and other left-wing groups in the city will meet up with fellow activists in Cebu to denounce the 12th Asean Summit because, according to them, it benefits only ?the imperialist countries? like the US. Davao Today?s Cheryll D. Fiel reports.

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Why Call Centers Are NOT Investing in Davao

The Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry has decried the practice of call-center companies to recruit call-center agents from Davao City for their branches in Cebu or elsewhere. The chamber’s Andre Fornier had a mouthful to say about the matter:

“Cebu is bragging that they have enough call center agents, but most of their agents and also Manila-based call center agents came from Davao. We will not support call centers which are only making Davao City as a recruitment ground. Of course we cannot stop them from doing so, we have no law for that, but we will not encourage our people to be a call center agent in Manila or in Cebu,” he said.

But are these call-center companies really the problem?

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Last Son Alive

Fernando Alia Fernando Alia at the Davao Medical Center, the last of the Alia boys. (davaotoday.com photo by Cheryll D. Fiel)

Last week, Fernando Alia was near his home when somebody plunged an ice pick twice in his back. Although he survived, he doesn?t feel a bit lucky. Three other brothers had been stabbed to death in and around the Bankerohan public market, where butchers not only kill livestock. Their mother, Clarita Alia, is at her wit?s end dealing with these tragedies. Worse, they blame her for their misfortunes. Davao Today?s Cheryll D. Fiel reports.

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