Davao priest Fr. Paul Cunanan died of a heart failure at 3 p.m. of January 19, this year. He was 68. Fr. Cunanan was at the doctor for a check-up at the Mindanao Heart Center, where he was confined and scheduled for a heart operation, when he gave in after to a cardiac arrest.
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
Reverend Fr. John Yuji Kanzaki, chair of the Philippine committee of the National Christian Churches of Japan (NCCJ), remembers growing up in Japan, where he used to love bananas as a boy. Bananas are expensive in Japan, he tells reporters here, When I was a boy, I cant stop eating them. But a recent visit in banana plantations in Compostela Valley made him change his mind.
After hearing about the successful launch of the e-jeepney in Makati, Davao officials are excited about the prospects of electric-powered cars, saying it could lessen the country’s dependence on gasoline.
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte thumbs down initial moves to entice him to run for the Senate under the slate of Lakas-NUCD when his third term as mayor finally ends in 2010.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ordered no let up against drugs and crime syndicates despite criticisms from international human rights groups and the report by United Nations (UN) rapporteur Philip Alston on extra-judicial killings.
Foreign-funded Jathropa plantations are encroaching on agricultural lands and it only adds to the existing laws and policies that cause food deprivation among the poor Filipinos like the 70% farmers and farm workers in the country, Celso Pojas, KMP-SMR spokesperson said.
Davao City– Gabriela today lambasted the dismissal of the rape case filed by 16-year old “Emily” against six men in…
Last December 31, at around 2:50 in the afternoon, 45-year-old human-rights defender Bishop Delfin Callao Jr. and his family received a text message from 09206012624 saying Mag-ingat ka, Bilang na ang Oras mo.
