Contrary to the Arroyo administration?s claims that the peace process between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is progressing, the Moro group today lambasted the government for ?offering…
One of the biggest banana companies in Mindanao recently fired 196 workers. The welfare of their families on the line, the aggrieved workers decided to take to the streets. They?re still there.
By Alberto P. Egot Jr.
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY — “Trabaho ipadayon, dili separation pay!” At daytime, the red flag bearing these words is waved high, to call attention and action. But when evening comes, this piece of cloth keeps the weary backs of workers from the cold and damp.
Just outside the offices of the AMS Group of Companies along F. Torres Street, on a strip of a roadside dirtpath, workers of a banana plantation in Compostela town, Compostela Valley, have been staying 24 hours a day for more than a week now.
DAVAO CITY ? The human rights group Karapatan has condemned the murder of an AnakPawis coordinator and pinned the blame on the state. In a statement, the group also noted what it said was an ?alarming increase? in human-rights violations in Southern Mindanao.
Two months after the fatal shooting of Armando Pace, a hard-hitting radio commentator in Digos City, the case remains in limbo.
By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com
DIGOS CITY ? He was called the ?Jun Pala? of Digos, a fire-breathing broadcaster who earned another moniker, ?Rakman,? because of the sheer firepower (rak-rak!) of his radio commentaries.
He feared nobody and never hesitated attacking anybody, even sometimes on a personal level. Armando Pace, the 55-year-old broadcaster from AM station DXDS-Radyo Ukay in this city, certainly made many enemies. And just like Pala, he was felled, on July 18, by an assassin?s bullet. He was said to be the first radioman in Digos to have been murdered.