Some 55 new City Hall employees attended the first day of the two-day orientation seminar by the Human Resource Management Office to educate them of their duties and responsibilities as government employees on Tuesday, August 23.
Three organic farm restaurants can now claim that their products are 100 percent organically grown and produce after receiving the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) organic certication.
Sheena Duazo, spokesperson of Bayan Southern Mindanao Region, said that they will use the presentation during their talks in communities in Davao region in a bid to educate the public and enjoin them in supporting the peace process.
The New People’s Army released another video of Police Chief Inspector Arnold Ongachen who was held captive by the communist rebels for almost three months now.
An estimate of 5,000 indigenous people’s from four provinces in Region 12 gathered at the Rizal Park here Monday, August 22 to protest the continuing injustices towards the Lumads including the issue of environmental destruction.
Fourteen entries from all over Mindanao competed in this year’s Indak-Indak sa Kadalanan. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
The Communist Party of the Philippines and the National Operational Command of the New People’s Army issued a unilateral declaration of a seven-day ceasefire that will take effect starting Sunday, August 21.
In Bibinayo, the Lumad tribes pound “palay” (pre-husked rice) and separate grain from the chaff in a given time. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines in Southern Mindanao Region today ordered for the release of two captive police officials in Davao Region as a goodwill measure for the resumption of the formal peace talks set on August 22.
City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio is seven weeks pregnant with triplets.
