Meet Davao’s ‘Watershed Warriors’

They’re young, intelligent, committed — and they have the world on their shoulders.


Starting ‘Em Young. Using a net, these two children try to catch some fish and clean up some debris at the Malagos dam during the youth camp. Apart from having fun, they were taught how to help protect the city’s watershed, which is being abused both by humans and companies. (davaotoday.com photo by Alberto P. Egot Jr.)

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Philippines Clarifies Computation of Discount for Senior Citizens

MANILA — Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Officer-in-Charge Luwalhati F. Pablo clarified that senior citizens continue to enjoy the 20 percent discount despite the addition of the 12 percent Expanded Value Added Tax (E-VAT) on their purchases of basic commodities and services.

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Philippines: More OFWs Availing of Special Repatriation Program

MANILA — Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) who wish to return to the Philippines but cannot do so for various reasons are now provided a window of opportunity through the government?s Special Repatriation Program (SRP), Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Arturo Brion said today.

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Comelec should not stand by as Philippines’s party-list system is manipulated, bastardized — Beltran

MANILA — Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today said that the Commission on Elections is being bureaucratic when it justifies its refusal to investigate the allegations that the Arroyo government is funding several party-lists running in the May 14 elections by saying that no one has filed any official complaint.

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Pimentel Deplores Lack of Solid Development Plans for Philippines

MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today decried the lack of solid plans
for the development of the nation under the leadership
of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo because of her
administration?s tendency to disregard or sacrifice
plans, no matter how beneficial they are to majority
of Filipinos, when they conflict with the interest of
a favored few or the President?s political interest.

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