Saying it will destroy the whole university system, a high ranking school official of the government-ran University of Southeastern Phillippines (Usep) here wanted the bill junked that seeks to merge state universities and colleges in Davao del Norte province.
At age 10, Liling had her first sexual experience with her boyfriend three years her senior. A year later she ran away from home and joined a gang that engaged in prosititution.
If the Bangsamoro entity in Mindanao gets enacted, federalism would ride high on its success and to be drummed up much easier on the platform that provinces continued to be neglected by the national government, Mindanao leaders said.
Organizers of the Mindanao-wide reforestation event in Davao last week issued a public apology after a number of volunteers and participants told news organizations and swarmed the social media about the unannounced inaccessibility of the planting sites to public transport.
Survivors of Typhoon Pablo doubted that the government’s plan to shift to planting palm oil from coconut trees in Davao Oriental will help them recover from the 2012 disaster, saying it will only “intensify land-grabbing” of their farm and ancestral lands.