By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today In a video presented during the briefing, the day-care teacher Mutya Acosta said the children are in constant fear due to the presence of the army in the barangay hall. She added that some children do not like to attend classes because they can see uniformed men with high-powered firearms roaming around.
By KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA Davao Today Anna Abad, Climate and Energy Campaigner of Greenpeace said that the country is “entering the age of coal.” Twelve more coal-fired power plants have been approved in the last two years under President Benigno Aquino III’s term. Six of these are located in Mindanao making the island a “new frontier” for coal-fired power plant projects.
As outrage against the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 continues to snowball and create unprecedented unity and defiance among netizens, the Aquino administration has not backed down in its resolve…
By ALEX D. LOPEZ and JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today “This is not to say that we have already taken our freedom back. This is to say that we continue fighting for this freedom against those who wish to take it away from us, to render us voiceless. No reason to let our guards down. The battle has just begun,” said Davao journalist Jeffrey Tupas in reaction to the Supreme Court’s issuance of its Temporary Restraining Order on the Cybercrime Prevention Act.