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Davao City Hall Slammed for ‘Sell-Out,’ ‘Anti-People’ Report on Aerial-Spray Ban

The environment group Interface Development Interventions Inc. has criticized City Hall’s recommendations on aerial spraying, calling it a sellout. Below is the group’s statement:


An environmental NGO criticized the report of Eng. Luis Jacinto, city planning coordinator, on the controversial proposal to ban aerial spraying in Davao City branding it as a ?sell-out that intentionally omitted glaring facts to come up with recommendations tailored to favor only banana corporations.?

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Davao City Wins Another ?Green Banner? Award

For the second year, Davao City won the Green Banner Award, one of the prestigious and outstanding awards given to a local government unit, city or municipality of the region because of its relentless campaign in promoting and implementing its nutrition program.

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Banana Chemical Downs 80 Davao del Norte Residents, Mostly School Kids

Nearly 80 individuals, most of them schoolchildren, fell ill on Wednesday after they were exposed to toxic fumes from the banana plantation of Tadeco, which is owned by the Floirendos, in Dujali, Davao del Norte, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported. Authorities said at least 30 of the children passed out after inhaling a chemical used to kill worms in banana plants, the paper said.

This incident, the latest in a string of chemical poisoning in the Philippines the past week, is sure to revive the debate in Davao on how banana plantations are using chemicals, particularly aerial spraying. This early, one environment group warned that what happened in Dujali could happen in Davao.

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