Duterte warns against syndicates over killings
Two killings including a lawyer and a restuarant owner in Davao City prompted Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to issue a warning on criminals and guns-for-hire believed to be hiding in the city.
Jobs fair enforcing brain drain, says labor group
The labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (May One Movement) said it finds it ironic that the labor department holds a jobs’ fair on Independence Day.
Duterte wants partisan politics out of “auxiliary” police operations
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte wants strict supervision of the police on the operation of the civilian “auxiliary police” to counter akyat bahay (burglars) to avoid abuse and “colored partisan politics.”
Group wants government attention on child labor in Davao
Most sixteen-year-olds should have been in the fourth year of their high school this school year, or in Grade 10 in the current Kindergarten plus 12 years of basic education.
Gov’t not doing enough to decongest classrooms
Teachers slammed the failure of the government’s decongestion program for public schools.