Yearly Archives: 2012

Cancel “logging permits” in Davao Oriental, envi rights group says

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today As Pablo already claimed the lives of 990 individuals and damaged over PHP 21 billion in agriculture and infrastructure in the Davao region alone, Panalipdan said it is not enough to just give relief goods and help for the rebuilding of lives of affected people in Southern Mindanao. “We must also demand for justice and exact accountability from companies and government that plundered environmental resources with impunity,” Francis Morales, Panalipdan’s secretary general said.

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NPA declares Davao region-wide ceasefire in the wake of Pablo tragedy

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today The ceasefire coverage, Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesman of the NPA’s Merardo Arce Command-Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command said, is extended to other parts of their regional jurisdiction which are not directly hit by typhoon Pablo to help address the said crisis especially in the more than 24 towns in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental where over 33 percent of its “revolutionary forces” live and over a million of peasants, workers, lumads and ordinary poor are affected.

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City vet warns against ‘double-dead’ meat

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Assistant City Veterinarian Esther Cherrie Rayos said during Monday’s Kapehan sa SM that their office is intensifying the campaign starting at the slaughter houses up to the display stalls in market centers “to ensure the health and safety of consumers.”

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