(Last of Two Parts) By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today “We ran towards the mountains,” said Jocelyn Bocaron, who carried their four children including their youngest a one-year old infant to their safety amidst the wind. “The young coconut trees were not affected by the wind. We hid there until the strong winds subsided,” she said.
(First of Two Parts) By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today “We have no food because there are no jobs here (because of Pablo). The government has only given three kilos, what saved us is our stored NFA rice. On our own we look for food,” Lorna Dolosa, a resident said.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “To say that the NPA ”kidnapped” children who were also victims of Pablo, is indeed, a claim that only the fascist and devious AFP can readily concoct and spin.” -- Ka Boyet Makatindog, spokesperson of NPA’s Guerilla Front 34
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today In a statement emailed on Wednesday and dated December 5, Ka Oris, spokesperson of NDFP-Mindanao said the ceasefire order given to the New People’s Army in the typhoon-hit areas is meant to “pave the way for a safe, unhampered and speedy rescue of victims, and to conduct a speedy and unhampered relief operations in the affected communities.”
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (@pontifex) posted his first tweet Wednesday and has already gathered over 700,000 followers.