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Davaoe?o tops geodetic eng?g exam

This city once again made history when a graduate from John Paul II College of Davao topped this year?s Geodetic Engineer Licensure Examination given by the Board of Geodetic Engineering in Manila last September. Alfredo Cahiles Gaborne Jr., from Calinan, said he did not expect to get the highest rating and that all he wanted was to be in the top 20 list.

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Here’s why ’08 Philippines budget is anti-poor

COMMENTARY | By Ibon Foundation

Contrary to the Arroyo government's claims of a social payback in exchange for new tax measures, only 17 centavos out of every peso in revenues are allocated in next year's budget for health, education and housing services. In the budget, funding for government hospitals was slashed by 12 percent. By contrast, the Department of National Defense will get thrice as much as the health department.

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Environmentalists celebrate with Lumad in Tipolog

Environmentalists are yet again scaling up Mt. Tipolog, known as the country?s lost volcano found in Barangay Tawan-Tawan, Baguio District, as their way of celebrating the generosity of the mountain to the residents of the area especially to the lumad (indigenous peoples).

This is in time for the celebration of October as the Indigenous People?s Month.
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Karapatan Davao rebukes Arroyo’s ‘hypocritical’ speech at UN

DAVAO CITY ? Human rights group Karapatan- Southern Mindanao sharply rebuked President Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo’s speech delivered at the 62nd Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York last Friday. The president, in her address said that Philippines is the most democratic country in Asia-Pacific Region and did not even tolerate human rights violations in the country.
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