By MICK M. BASA Davao Today The ban is stifling small traders with how they can make ends meet. Now they wonder whether the law is there to help the environment -- or just to single out people who struggle to put food on their table by selling what they can at the wet market.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today Demands for decent wages, according to the NUJP-Davao "cannot be put on hold, especially not with RMN doing good business, raking in huge profits."
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “My sympathy is with them. They are doing the right thing. Their action should awaken the management.” -- Edgar Ibuyan, chairman of the City Council’s committee on labor and employment
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today “We have no choice but to strive hard to continue to survive. But because the threat of demolition is always there, we have to be on our toes all the time.” Penny Panungkad, resident, Soliman, Agdao
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “The EO is not a policy shift but a fine-tuning of the widely opposed RA 7942 which perpetuates the highly extractive, export-oriented and foreign-controlled mining industry” -- Juland Suazo, Panalipdan spokesperson.