This year's Pride Month for the LGBTQ community is marked with sadness as Davao City's prominent gay activist Pidot Villocino passed away in this time of pandemic on June 6 from lung failure at age 61.
As the volume of garbage continue to mount and threaten the global ecosystem, turning discarded materials such as plastics into something useful has been one of the advocacies of environmentalists and zero-waste management proponents.
Human rights group KARAPATAN urged a Davao City court to conduct a reinvestigation and recall the arrest warrants on their national chairperson Elisa Lubi and Southern Mindanao Region Secretary General Jay Apiag on charges of attempted murder.
Health authorities on Thursday (March 12) have now put a person who was confirmed to be positive of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) after confinement at a local hospital on isolation.
THE STATE OF MEDIA FREEDOM in the Philippines under the Duterte Administration remains a tragic story as new and more cases of attacks and threats continue, with marked uptick for certain incidents.