Davao farmers slam jathropa planting, Biofuels Act

?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.

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Duterte, Nograles squabble over broadcaster’s murder

By Marilou M. Aguirre | Davao Today

Mayor Rodrigo Duterte hinted that a Davao Congressman, who hired retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan as a consultant, must have known something about the killing of Davao broadcaster Ferdinand "Batman" Lintuan.

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