Luna Acosta announces on Nov. 7, the 13th Acosta Cup, an annual women’s football competition by her mother, City Councilor Mabel Acosta. The competition opened on Oct. 8 and would be holding its championship round on Dec. 11 at the Tionko field, Davao City. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
April Escobillo and Justine Lumingkit of the Blue Posts Boiling Crabs and Shrimps announce in a news conference on Nov. 7, the opening of their third branch sometimes on December. The soon-to-be-opened branch is located at the ground floor of the SM Annex. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Davao City councilor Mary Joselle Villafuerte, chair of the Committee on Health, says she will lobby to Mayor Sara Duterte an increase of the city’s health department budget for this year. The CHO office has only allotted P17 million which falls short of the P24 million proposed budget for 2017. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Residents here are jubilant after boxing champ Manny Pacquiao clinched a rousing unanimous decision victory over Jessie Vargas in Las Vegas on Sunday, Nov. 6.
Hundreds of supporters inside the Bangkerohan Multi-purpose gym in Barangay 5-A, Davao City rejoice as boxing champ Manny Pacquiao scores a unanimous decision over Jessie Vargas. Pacquiao, who is also a Senator, claims the World Boxing Organization welterweight title in Las Vegas on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 6. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
The indigenous peoples from various regions and Moro tribes joined the caravan in a bid to present their plight before the various government agencies in the country’s seat of power— Manila.
Jay, 8, holds his favorite among the more than 50 Christmas lanterns that he and his father make and sell along Tiongko Street in Davao City. The fifth among eight children, Jay helps his father sell lanterns as soon as the month of October comes in. While he likes eating vegetables, sometimes they can’t even fill all eight plates with his parents’ earnings. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Relatives who visited their dead in Davao City are met by torrential rain showers on Tuesday, November 1 caused by a low pressure area located at 525 km east of northeast Hinatuan, Surigao. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
A member of the Presidential Security Group guards the entrance of the tomb of Soledad Duterte and former Davao Governor Vicente Duterte, the parents of President Rodrigo Duterte, at the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Davao City on Tuesday, Nov. 1. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Toto Bolcan, an urban poor leader, expresses his support to the protesting farmers in front of the Department of Agriculture regional office in Davao City on Tuesday, Oct. 25. The farmers demanded for farm subsidies. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
