By CHERYLL FIEL
As voting will be automated for the first time in 2010, the public policy watchdog Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) foresees the elections as a more difficult process than an easier one.
DAVAO CITY — Lack of transparency and vulnerability to technical errors of the automated election has the Ecumenical Bishops Forum…
Davao City – A total of 18 youths from all over southern and central Mindanao gathered in a 3-day workshop…
Formerly known as PTA ground, the P71-million peso People’s Park features a tropical rainforest trees, a sunken garden, fountains and…
By CHERYLL FIEL
Six months into the probe, and three public inquiries so far, the Commission on Human Rights is nowhere near proving the existence of the Davao Death Squad, let alone, establish a connection with Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
DAVAO CITY (davaotoday.com) The onset of typhoons in Metro Manila, which choked up major roads from surrounding provinces, had opened a market for Davaos vegetables. Read on
BAGANGA, DAVAO ORIENTAL (davaotoday.com) Even before they could open it, villagers in Baganga town of Davao Oriental are already complaining about the 24-hour shift that running the Barangay Defense System outpost will entail.
It will disrupt our farming activities, one villager complained to a fact-finding and medical mission team that entered the area on October 21 to 23.
BDS members dont have salaries. What will our family eat? Read on
By CHERYLL FIEL
The image of a soldier shooting a villager clambering upon the back of an open truck is still fresh in the minds of the Manobos when they left their homes in Barangay Diatagon in Lianga, Surigao del Sur in July this year.
By CHERYLL FIEL
After one month and 13 days at the evacuation camp, the Manobo evacuees finally went home to Lianga on August 30. Aboard a convoy of 40 trucks to barangay Diatagon, the lumads left the grounds of the Diocese of Tandag that served as their evacuation camp. But barely a month after coming home, the soldiers are back again, recruiting them to the Task Force Gantangan, a paramilitary group to fight the government�s war against the insurgents.
By CHERYLL FIEL
Twenty members of lumad support groups, including a Davao Today reporter, went inside Talaingod�s sitio Dulyan in barangay Palma Gil to verify reports that soldiers have been occupying some houses in the village, a violation of the International Humanitarian Law that bans soldiers from civilian areas.
