By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today
BREAKING NEWS | Celso Pojas was the secretary-general of the Farmers’ Association of Davao City and spokesman of the KMP in Southern Mindanao. He was the first militant leader assassinated in Davao city, according to Karapatan-Southern Mindanao.
Slain farmers’ leader Celso Pojas during the peasant month press conference in October last year. The words on his hat reads “Land, not bullet.” (davaotoday.com file photo by Barry Ohaylan)
An activist holds a placard calling for the scrapping of the 12-percent value added tax on oil products. Beside her is an effigy of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo depicting her continuous “subservience to the demands and dictates of big oil players.” Organizers said the strike paralyzed 95 percent of Davao City’s public transport system. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
Mindanao’s micro, small and medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs) can now upgrade their skills and be more competitive with the help of an information technology (IT) enabling facility.
The contractor of the project announced that, good weather permitting, the construction of the bridge will be completed on or before the first week of June and will be passable before the opening of classes on the second week.
The construction work of the Bankerohan bridge is already 81.47 percent complete, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways. In June or July, the bridge will again be passable. The DPWH assures that the project contractor will not compromise quality even if the firm finishes the project ahead of schedule. Click here for more photos.
(davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)
By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today
On their way to Davao city, workers from the provinces of Compostela Valley and Davao del Norte braved road inspections, ‘surprise checkpoints’ before they were able to join the Labor Day rally to express their demands for the P125 across-the-board wage increase, for government to bring down prices of basic commodities, including rice.
A young boy joins a protest calling for food security. The leftist group Bayan says low supply of affordable rice is the result of land conversion. It calls for the immediate implementation of the Republic Act 7581or Price Act of 1992 and the legislation and approval of the Genuine Agrarian Reform Law. The Farmers Association of Davao City (FADC) also joined the picket outside the regional office of the Department of Agriculture against the high prices of rice and basic commodities. Farmers blame President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for the rice crisis that is currently plaguing the country. Click here for more photos. (davaotoday.com photos by Jonald Mahinay)
The 39th commemoration of Earth Day is an occasion for Mindanaoans and all patriotic Filipinos to call for the accountability…
Karapatan-Southern Mindanao said that military operations in the boundary towns of Baganga, Davao Oriental, New Bataan and Compostela, Compostela Valley…
