Human rights group Amnesty International and the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Saturday, September 3, urged President Rodrigo Duterte to respond to the deadly Davao blast “with peace and not with more violations of human rights.”
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts announced that Mindanao got the biggest chunk of the 2017 NCCA national budget for arts and culture projects.
The Police Regional Office 11 said there is no suspect yet in the blast that killed at least 13 and wounded several others at the night market in Roxas street here Friday night, September 2.
Families grieve as they identify their kins killed in the blast that rocked the busy night market along Roxas street here Friday night, September 2. (Maria Patricia. C. Borromeo/davaotoday.com)
President Rodrigo Duterte declared on Saturday, September 3, a state of lawlessness following the explosion past 10:00 pm Friday night, September 2 at Roxas Street, a known place for Davao’s night market.
DAVAO CITY — It is a sad day for the city after an explosion rocked the busy night market…
The Lumad evacuees in the provincial sports center in Tandag City, Surigao del Sur are returning to their communities on Friday, September 2.
This city is set to implement the Halal ordinance in October, Councilor Halila Y. Sudagar, the chairperson of the committee on cultural communities and Muslim affairs, has announced.
The city government is mulling to open two new sanitary landfills as the existing landfill located in Tugbok district is only left with two years in its lifespan.
Former Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) federation president and now City Councilor Halila Y. Sudagar expressed her sentiments in the proposed abolition of SK as part of the rationalization of government functions.
