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DOH to train more birth attendants

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May 25, 2009

Davao City — The health department hopes to decrease by 75 percent the number of mothers who die during childbirth by increasing its pool of skilled birth attendants in the region.

The Department of Health (DOH) has secured national funding for the Maternal Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition (MNCHN), a strategy to address the high rates of maternal mortality. Read on.

OFWs face a bleak future as global crisis hits companies worldwide

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May 15, 2009

JOBS FOR GRABS. Hundreds of job seekers queue at the job fair dubbed Jobapalooza on May 1 in one of the leading malls in Davao. The Department of Labor and Employment initiated the job fair to “address the effects of the global crisis on the workers and the economy.” (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

DAVAO CITY — Unlike most of the overseas Filipino workers who lost their jobs in Taiwan, Isabelita Atis, 29, felt relieved when her plane finally touched down at the Davao International Airport in December last year. She was among the 6,468 thousand overseas Filipinos laid-off in Taiwan after 95 Taiwanese companies were forced to trim down their workers as an effect of the global financial crisis.

Atis said she was glad she got rid of her exhausting job, which was supposed to end in January this year. Unlike other OFWs from Taiwan, she had no debts to pay and had also put up a decent amount of savings.

Other retrenched workers were not as lucky. Those who were laid off with Atis were worried how to pay their debts and how to find another job to support their families. Read on.

Cha Cha means more wage cuts and lay-offs, says KMU

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May 15, 2009

DAVAO CITY The Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) in Southern Mindanao is wary of the proposal to amend the Constitution to open up the countrys resources to foreign companies, saying such proposal will only result to unfair working conditions for workers.

Arman Blas, KMU-Southern Mindanao spokesperson, said salary deductions, lay-offs and unfair flexible labor conditions that workers experience right now will worsen if government allow foreign companies to come in.

He reiterated the KMUs stand against constitutional amendments which would give multi-national companies greater control over our economy. Read on

Is the police helpless in the face of abductions?

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May 02, 2009

Given the fact that reports on the abduction of her daughter reached first the police station of Talomo before it reached her, Evangeline Pitao, Rebelyns mother, asked if the police could have done any better? Could the police have blocked all the possible exit routes of the van and rescued Rebelyn that night?

We cannot guard all the exits, said police Supt. Querubin Manalang, Jr., the regional spokesperson of the Philippine National Police. Imagine how many passageways and roads there are in Davao city compared to the number of police personnel we have. That is not the only job of the police, he said. Read on

Anti-mining Lumad leader killed in Davao Oriental

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Apr 30, 2009

Ludenio Monson, a Mandaya farmer and leader of Nagkahiusang Mag-uuma sa Boston (United Farmers of Boston), was shot at around 4:30 in the afternoon on Wednesday, a volunteer from the Solidarity Action Group for Indigenous Peoples (Sagip) told Davao Today in a text message.Monson was with a companion at the time of the incident.

He told colleagues last month that he (Monson) was already a marked man in his area. He said he got information that his name was in the militarys Order of Battle list and that he could be taken anytime. He was among those strongly opposed to mining. Read on.