Davao Girl with Heart Ailment Needs Help
Addie Beatrix Velasco, a four-year-old girl from Davao City, has a rare congenital heart disease. Her parents, who both work at the control tower of the Davao International Airport, cannot…
Analysis: Martial Law and Back
In six years, the Arroyo administration has reversed the gains of the Filipino people, no matter how small, when it toppled the Marcos fascist dictatorship.
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Bulatlat
Analysis: Desperate Times for GMA
People simply do not buy repeated hectoring by the President and her allies that charter change will bring the country to paradise and news that she is sick generates further expectations for her to step down. The survival options for the besieged President have simply depreciated.
By the Policy Study, Publication and Advocacy Program
Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
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The Ritual at Tudaya Falls (slide show)
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The Ritual at Tudaya Falls
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A giant power company plans to build a hydroelectric plant in Tudaya, a village in Davao del Sur. Proponents of the project said the plant would “not only offer solution to the power crisis in the offing, but at the same time provide livelihood opportunities and other benefits to the communities.” The Lumads in the area, however, are up in arms, claiming that the plant would desecrate Tudaya Falls, which is their worship ground, and destroy their way of life. They also accuse Hedcor, the power company, of misleading members of the tribe. They expressed their opposition to the project by holding a sacred ritual last week. Davao Today?s Cheryll D. Fiel was there.
