Today’s View: A letter from an old friend in Batangas

By KRISTA V. MELGAREJO Davao Today How I wish I could visit Maricon in Batangas. But I wish more that she’ll be finally released. For now, I’m keeping her words deep inside my heart: “We will not stop until we break these bars and until victory and freedom is achieved.”

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Military intel eyes NPA areas on elections

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today Major General Ariel Bernardo, commanding officer of the 10th Infantry Division, says Monday the military “will be occupying conflict-affected areas,” or about 15 percent of his unit’s area of responsibility, which he calls “guerilla bases.” These are in the boundaries of Davao del Norte-Bukidnon, Davao del Norte-Agusan Sur and Compostela Valley-Davao Oriental.

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Brownouts in Mindanao during elections, highly possible, DOE official says

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today

Citing that Mindanao mainly depends on the Agus-Pulangi hydro complex, which accounts for half of the island’s power supply, Llaneza said the most that the government can do is “minimize” power interruptions.

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