Schools ready for disaster after Davao Norte’s Brigada Eskwela
Disaster preparedness marked the annual Brigada Eskwela or the nationwide school maintenance week Monday.
Duterte thought twice to help NPA captive accused of logging, illegal drugs
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said he was at first hesitant to help a soldier recently held by the New People’s Army when he learned that the Prisoner of War (POW) was involved in illegal logging and drug use.
Evacuation echoes yearning for protected land for tribal Manobos
They slept by day. At night, they left. Following the trail of the river, they walked, crawled, and stumbled. Datu Tungig Mansumuy-at didn’t use flashlights so that they won’t be seen. They first carried their children then went back for the ill.
North Cotabato village to ask AFP to spare residents from counterinsurgency interrogations
Barangay leaders of village in Magpet, North Cotabato said they planned to pass a resolution that would ask the government Armed Forces to spare their residents from counterinsurgency interrogations, saying that the mostly farmer residents have expressed fear for their lives while working in isolated farms.
Low pay and poor work benefits cause exodus of teachers in private schools
Their exact number could not be immediately determined but random interviews with some of them revealed that government teaching positions are currently the better, if not, the only option over issues of security of tenure, higher paying job and other perks.