Photos by MEDEL V. HERNANI, ACE R. MORANDANTE & TYRONE A. VELEZ Text by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Assessing Aquino’s performance since 2012, various sectors and organizations criticized his administration on different issues, thus, giving him a “failing mark.” They said, regional issues “depict the worsening plight of workers, farmers, the urban poor, consumers, and intensified threat to the environment.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Bearing banners and placards, they converged in Lanao Village before they stormed various government agencies, venting out their disgust over Aquino’s “priority programs and projects” which they blame for the people’s continuing suffering.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today While many of the members of the Congress have their attire haute couture and not a few designed by the country’s top fashion (read: expensive) designers like Pitoy Moreno , nationalist lawmakers like Ilagan opted to stay grounded just like the people she vowed to serve.
By MICK M. BASA & MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Before he stands on the podium and delivers the Sona, Davao Today gathered the thoughts of the President’s “bosses” -- the Filipinos. What do they expect or want to hear during his Sona?