DAVAO CITY

PAL exec sees better business prospects for Davao

DAVAO CITY — This city will continue to be a haven for new investments especially in the field of tourism-related business ventures.

Lawyer Domingo Duerme, Senior Assistant Vice-President for Mindanao Sales of the Philippine Air Lines (PAL), express this optimism Wednesday morning at the launching of the PAL photo exhibit at SM Mall highlighting the Asian first airliner’s “rich historical legacy of PAL to the Filipino nation.”

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Davao City promotes breastfeeding

By Rose Palacio

City Health Officer Dr. Josephine Villafuerte said the city government, as instructed by Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte, has been monitoring nutrition implementation in all district of Davao and promotes breastfeeding as a vital component of the President?s hunger mitigation program.
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Tuition hike blamed on ‘grand conspiracy’ between Arroyo, private schools

According to Kabataan partylist, CHED granted the tuition increase even before consultations in schools for such an increase has yet to be completed. It said the hike came after a meeting between President Arroyo and COCOPEA, the organization of private schools. The CHED's "unilateral and shameless act shows the commission's subservience and capitulation to strong pressure from school owners even at the expense of students."

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A child works for education


Argel Kiawan, 14 and an incoming second-year high-school student, does some spade work outside the Magallanes Elementary School, which pays him 100 pesos a day. Kiawan says his family is poor so he needs to find work for his lunch money and daily school allowance. That a minor like him was hired by a public school to do manual labor likewise underscores the problem of child labor in Davao City and the flagrant violation even by government officials of the country's child-labor laws. Click for larger photo (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

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