China’s weapons installed on disputed Spratly islands hit
A progressive partylist group scored what it describes China’s militarist action after it installed weapons on the disputed islands in the West Philippine Sea.
Gombil Mansimuy-at, one of the village leaders of Sambulongan, Talaingod, Davao del Norte. (photo by Jan Khim Gamora)
‘Deaths of tribal chieftain, son reflect PHL’s poor health services in IP communities’
Datu Gombil Mansimuy-at wanted a doctor in their community, a wish he will not see happening after he died due to cholera on December 8 in their village in Talaingod town, Davao del Norte province.
Davao’s Jesuit school to adopt 3,473 drug reformists
The Jesuit-ran Ateneo de Davao University will adopt 3,473 drug-reformists under its newly launched Committee Against Illegal Drugs.
INFORMAL AGREEMENT. Tagum City Mayor Allan Rellon convenes the city's crisis management committee on Wednesday, Dec. 14 to address the land dispute conflict between the Madaum Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association and Lapanday Foods Corporation. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
Tagum mayor orders Lapanday guards chief to stop attack vs farmers
Mayor Allan Rellon ordered the Lapanday Foods Corporations security guards to stop attacking farmers after a second shooting incident transpired inside the contested banana plantation area in Barangay Madaum here.
LAND TRANSFER. Assistant Regional Director for Operations of the Department of Agrarian Reform-1 Venchito Mandap offers an alternative to land usage and ownership to the Hijo Employees Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Cooperative-1(HEARBCO-1) as the Madaum Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association, Inc. occupies the 145 hectares of land at Barangay Madaum in Tagum City. Mandap says only 117 hectares of land are intended for Marbai. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
DAR to Lapanday: Let us divide the land
Antonio Tuyak, 61, has been a farmer for the last 35 years before the land he was tilling got into a land dispute with Lapanday Foods Corporation.