Environment

Cancel “logging permits” in Davao Oriental, envi rights group says

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today As Pablo already claimed the lives of 990 individuals and damaged over PHP 21 billion in agriculture and infrastructure in the Davao region alone, Panalipdan said it is not enough to just give relief goods and help for the rebuilding of lives of affected people in Southern Mindanao. “We must also demand for justice and exact accountability from companies and government that plundered environmental resources with impunity,” Francis Morales, Panalipdan’s secretary general said.

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NPA declares Davao region-wide ceasefire in the wake of Pablo tragedy

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today The ceasefire coverage, Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesman of the NPA’s Merardo Arce Command-Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command said, is extended to other parts of their regional jurisdiction which are not directly hit by typhoon Pablo to help address the said crisis especially in the more than 24 towns in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental where over 33 percent of its “revolutionary forces” live and over a million of peasants, workers, lumads and ordinary poor are affected.

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Loss and horror as Davao Oriental sees eye of the storm

(Last of Two Parts) By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today “We ran towards the mountains,” said Jocelyn Bocaron, who carried their four children including their youngest a one-year old infant to their safety amidst the wind. “The young coconut trees were not affected by the wind. We hid there until the strong winds subsided,” she said.

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NDFP-Mindanao sympathizes with Pablo victims, declares 29-day unilateral ceasefire

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today In a statement emailed on Wednesday and dated December 5, Ka Oris, spokesperson of NDFP-Mindanao said the ceasefire order given to the New People’s Army in the typhoon-hit areas is meant to “pave the way for a safe, unhampered and speedy rescue of victims, and to conduct a speedy and unhampered relief operations in the affected communities.”

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