Author Archives: ACE R. MORANDANTE

11 years ago

CRACKED WALL

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A hole in a building in Lustre Street peers through a mosque. Many of these buildings were left in tatters during the Zamboanga standoff last September. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

11 years ago

MOODS

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Older sister smiles while younger sister stares emptily at their evacuation center in Zamboanga City’s Enriquez Memorial Complex, two months after the Zamboanga siege. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

11 years ago

MASKED PARTY-GOER

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A masked contestant shows off in the First Halloween Underground Foam Party held at the Royal Mandaya hotel on Thursday. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

11 years ago

HALLOWEEN COSTUMES

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The winner of the best costume of the First Halloween Underground Foam Party at the Royal Mandaya Hotel receives a 50,000 pesos cash prize and a round trip ticket to Phukket, Thailand. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

11 years ago

SCARING THE PORK AWAY

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Activists in Davao staged a Halloween costume protest along San Pedro Street to air their call for the abolition of the President’s special funds, DAP and pork barrel funds. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

11 years ago

HALLOWEEN VS PORK

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Activists in Davao staged a Halloween costume protest along San Pedro Street to air their call for the abolition of the President’s special funds, DAP and pork barrel funds. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

11 years ago

SONG FOR, BY THE CHILDREN

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School children from Puting Bato, Compostela town of Compostela Valley present a song during the Save Our Schools: Children’s Camp launched by child advocates in Panansalan, Compostela last October 29 to call for the protection of children’s rights in the observance of Children’s Month. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante

11 years ago

REENACTING THE HORROR

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Children of Barangay Mangayon, town of Compostela, Compostela Valley dramatize how they were harassed and forced by government soldiers to act as guides in their counter-insurgency operations . This was part of the Save Our Schools: Children’s Camp launched by child advocates in Panansalan, Compostela last October 29 to call for the protection of children’s rights in the observance of Children’s Month. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

11 years ago

FAREWELL, ‘BATO’ DELA ROSA

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Outgoing Davao City Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa bids reporters goodbye during the turnover rites on Friday as his next assignment will be in Camp Crame, Manila as he will head the police department’s intelligence unit. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)