In Sto. Tomas, 422 teachers to serve as BEIs, support staff for May polls

By MART D. SAMBALUD
Davao Today

“Out of the 422, only 220 will be the Board of Election Inspectors while the remaining 220 will serve as a support staff to BEIs,” Samsona said in an interview.  The said teachers will be deployed to 24 polling precincts and 74 clustered precincts in the town.

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Mindanao IPs’ continuing battle vs environmental plunder, militarization

By GILBERT L. PACIFICAR
Davao Today

The 18 ethno-linguistic tribes of the island together with other support groups have converged to hold the government of Noynoy Aquino accountable for the destruction of the IPs’ ancestral lands and the many cases of rights abuses against the peasant and lumad communities including extrajudicial killings.

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Today’s View: The Youth in history

By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today

Our country is not in wanting when it comes to revolutionary acts of heroism and deeds of patriotism by the youth for the cause of national freedom and national salvation.  They always rise to the occasion whenever the Motherland needs them.  It behooves upon the present generation to hearken to what the country has been crying for in these trying times.

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Uncovering the terror in Baganga

By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Davao Today

Walkie Miraña of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines, one of the delegates of the mission, said they were living out a scene from a movie. “There were military checkpoints, and they asked people for cedula and ID, and warned us if we go there we are left to fend for ourselves. It’s just like straight from Orapronobis.”

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