By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “What we’ve asked was very modest, and yet the management was too stingy to give in to the employees’ rightful demands,” Rey Hernan Fabe, President, RMN Davao Employees Union
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today Plane fare costs are prohibitive for most Filipinos, even as industry leaders enjoy relatively high profits. Cebu Pacific profited PHP 962 Million (USD 23M) in the first quarter of this year, while Philippine Airlines’ total revenue is PHP 16 Billion (USD 386M) as of the last quarter of 2011.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “We’re asking the local government, especially the Mayor (Sara Duterte), to force these residents to vacate the area because it’s a danger zone,”-- Brgy. Capt. Robert Olanolan, Bucana, Davao City
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today Greenpeace: “an investment in coal edges out an investment in renewable energy.”
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN To highlight the “irony” of the Filipino-American Friendship day celebration , July 4, members of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan held a protest caravan and stopped in front of Glan Municipal Office where they urged the local officials to pass a resolution banning the entry of US troops in the area.