Today’s View: Raging for our women migrant workers

By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today

Imagine a mother, a daughter, a sister or a cousin made to suffer in the hands of our government officials.  They are touched, probed, forced into submission, psychologically and physically tortured by one who is supposed to help and protect them in a foreign land?  How would you feel?  Rage! 

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The Three Stars and a Sun

By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today

If I may correctly recite the Sibika at Kultura lessons during my elementary years, the three stars in the flag represent the three major islands and the colors blue and red represent peace over war.  It affirms our belief, our conviction, our choice, that peace should reign in our land.

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Today’s View: The price of education

By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today

I don’t know if I can afford one if ever I will have kids in the future given the K+12 Law and the commercialization of education.  It is a sad and infuriating fact that education should liberate us from the quagmires of poverty but it is the one thing which drives us to despair knowing that our children and our children’s children may never get one.

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FILE PHOTO.This picture was taken in May 9, 2013. A passerby ignores the campaign posters of both local and national candidates that practically cover this side of Davao City’s Buhangin District. (davaotoday.com photo by Wether b. Saldaña)

Today’s View: Vote wisely

By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today

We cannot grasp the enormity of the responsibility we have at our hands as voters.  But we are going to shape a nation which is mired by corruption, poverty, armed conflicts, human rights violations and economic sabotage. 

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Today’s View: Let’s give peace a chance

By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today

Peace comes with a high price.  It comes not just with a symbol of a dove and the signing of agreements.  It comes with a commitment to achieve actual results through genuine and sincere reforms for the majority of the people.

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