Davao City Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte has been rarely seen in public for the past months, but he has a reason why.
Author Archives: KATH M. CORTEZ
The youth group Anakbayan commemorates its 25th anniversary on November 30, which is also the birth anniversary of Katipunan founder Andres Bonifacio. The group stages a rally affirming to uphold the revolutionary spirit of Bonifacio through activism and fighting for people’s rights and demands. (Kath Cortez/davaotoday.com)
A Davao Muslim college student paints the Palestine flag on a fellow student in a solidarity gathering of Muslim and non-Muslim students in Freedom Park on Sunday to call for a ceasefire and justice in Israel’s bombing in Gaza. (Kath Cortez/davaotoday.com)
A resident from Purok 6 in Barangay Bago Gallera, gathers her kitchenware as she waits for water ration, one of the few things she saved from the raging flood that engulfed their barangay on the late night of November 8, 2023. (Kath Cortez/davaotoday.com)
DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Brazen is how the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) described the killing of radio…
Protecting the environment has been a risky endeavor in the nation, but a joint program by environment groups has fielded about 300 local indigenous peoples and farmers in Davao to protect the city’s watershed and forests and has yielded results in the past twelve years.
On All Souls’ Day, a man lits a candle at the ‘Dakung Krus’ in a Catholic cemetery in Davao City, ‘Dakung Krus’ is a place dedicated to dead loved ones whose graves are difficult to locate. (Kath Cortez/davaotoday.com)
The elderly are among the early birds in the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on Monday in Davao City, defying their age, health, and heat.
Davao City is one of the top five growing cities in the Philippines, but it is also one of the top areas for child prostitution and sex tourism, as noted by government agencies focused on women and child trafficking.
An annual audit report from COA showed the local government’s confidential funds tripled under Sara’s mayoral term.
