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15 years ago

Ginum and Amorsolo painting

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NOSTALGIA. A reproduction of Armorsolo’s Fruit Harvesting (1950) on display at the Davao Museum until January 13 next year. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)

Celebrating Ginum: A Festival for a Bountiful Harvest, runs at the Davao Museum until January 13 next year, the 13th of the 20 Amorsolo retrospective satellite exhibits slated around the country.

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Amorsolos Fruit Harvesting and the life of the people
By Lorie Ann A. Cascaro
Ten years after a fieldtrip in my kindergarten, I visited Davao Museum again on a Saturday morning. I would not have bothered if not for the Amorsolos satellite exhibit. The entrance fee piqued me a bit. It made me think that museums are not really for the common folks but for tourists who would like to see in capsule the citys history.

15 years ago

Captured soldier Cammayo assures family in NPA video

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DAVAO CITYCaptured soldier Vicente Cammayo assured his wife and family he is treated well in a video sent by Communist New Peoples Army (NPA) guerrillas to media on Sunday, almost a month after the soldiers capture in an ambush in a Monkayo village. Cammayo, the commander of the 11th Company of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion, also said in the video he was not wounded and that he surrendered to the NPA in an encounter in sitio Amagase of Monkayo towns barangay Casoon in Compostela Valley province.

15 years ago

PLEASE RELEASE MY HUSBAND

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Ma. Luisa Tumol (left), wife of PO3 Eduard Tumol, and Mariel Cammayo (right), wife of Lt. Vicente Cammayo, make the appeal to the New People’s Army in a forum by the Exodus for Justice and Peace, a multi-sectoral group calling for the resumption of peace talks between the government and the NDFP. Communist rebels earlier admitted holding the two soldiers prisoners of war. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

15 years ago

How important is the MOA-AD on the Moro people’s quest for right to self- determination?

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The Bangsamoro’s age-old problem had something to do with self-governance. The Bangsamoro people, who used to be under the rule of a Sultanate, lost their self- governance when Spain included Mindanao in the sale of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris in 1898, despite the fact that Spain never really conquered Mindanao as part of the colony.