Davao folk-ethnic music artist Popong Landero headlines the Save the Rain concert with Davao folk artists this June 22 at Apo View Hotel’s SoundBox Bar. Proceeds of the concert will go to the rain catchwater basin construction at Tibungco Day Care Center, a project of Interface Development Interventions (IDIs). (Tyrone E. Velez/davaotoday.com)
FADC spokesperson Pedro Arnado told Davao Today that Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s proposal to Paquibato farmers to embrace oil palm “may be enticing”, but warns that only businessmen may profit at the expense of farmers.
The city government thinks this could happen, as Mayor Rodrigo Duterte entered a deal with the Korean Engineering and Construction (KEC) to conduct a joint study and construction of this project.
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte believes Davao is still safe, although he admitted in his Sunday television program that the recent killing of Richard King was jolting.
For Larry Argueles, a packing plant worker in his 40s, the country’s Independence Day on June 12 is hardly a cause for celebration.
Two killings including a lawyer and a restuarant owner in Davao City prompted Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to issue a warning on criminals and guns-for-hire believed to be hiding in the city.
The labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (May One Movement) said it finds it ironic that the labor department holds a jobs’ fair on Independence Day.
Most sixteen-year-olds should have been in the fourth year of their high school this school year, or in Grade 10 in the current Kindergarten plus 12 years of basic education.
Four Manila-based aerial surveyors reported missing last week in Maco, Compostela Valley were actually held by the New People’s Army for conducting drone surveillance in guerrilla base seemingly for mining purposes.
Two progressive partylist organizations described as “government ineptitude” on its move to reduce the number of regular school days as solution to shortage of teachers and classrooms.
