The City Council on August 6 passed a resolution urging President Rodrigo Duterte to lift Martial Law in Davao City.
Around 500 workers of the Japanese banana firm Sumitomo Fruits Corporation (Sumifru) awaited outside their plant at Barangay San Jose, Compostela, Compostela Valley province on Tuesday, expecting they will return to work after a year-long struggle for their reinstatement.
The Lumad Salugpongan school community held another protest on Monday in the Department of Education 11 to lift its suspension, this time in a creative form.
The Office of the City Mayor distributed a total of P2.5 million to the families affected by the strong waves brought by the southwest monsoon over the weekend.
President Rodrigo Duterte will “regret” plans to arm firemen and include them in the anti-insurgency campaign of the government, said the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
Fifty-one houses were totally damaged due to strong waves and high tide brought by the southwest monsoon on Saturday, August 3.
A fire totally destroyed 29 houses and partially destroyed a house in Purok 9B, Lower Madapo, Brgy. 8A, on Saturday afternoon, August 3.
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) National Office is now finishing its probe on the case of trafficking of 30 Manobo from Bukidnon recruited to work in a fish farm in Pangasinan.
Two members of a progressive farmers’ group in Bukidnon were shot by a masked gunman Friday in San Fernando, one of them was killed on the spot.
The city’s 34th Kadayawan Festival officially opened last Friday with an array of month-long events and activities for Davaoeňos and visiting tourists.
