A call to strengthen the efforts to protect the Davao Gulf was raised on Tuesday’s regular session of the Sangguniang Panlunsod after a dead whale was found with more than 88 pounds of plastic wastes jammed into its belly.
This was the assertion made by the leadership of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) after one of its consultants, Frank Fernandez, was arrested on Sunday, March 24.
Militant youth group League of Filipino Students (LFS) slammed the Duterte government for being “incapable of defending our country’s own territorial integrity” with the claim that it could only do so much about China’s aggression in the West Philippine Sea.
There were no words of inspiration to his fellow Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) members when Pres. Rodrigo Duterte spoke before thousands of local officials and supporters but the usual tirade against drug addicts, the Commission on Human Rights, Communist insurgents, opposition senatorial candidates, and the Roman Catholic clergy.
Earning its reputation as one of the country’s top tourist destinations, this island has launched another attraction for both outdoor enthusiasts and mountain trekkers.
Nearly two years of never-ending struggle to go back to where their houses once stood, the women and the youth held another show of anger and dismay over the failure of the government to improve the ground zero here, the scene of the heaviest battles of the armed forces and Maute group in 2017.
Following the permanent termination of the peace negotiations with the Communist Party of the Philippines, Jose Maria Sison, Chief Political Consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines is seeing the full implementation of the government’s all-out war against the revolutionary forces.
This island’s sole district representative has urged the management of its only power utility to act on the financial losses it has incurred amounting to almost half a billion pesos or the entire island-province will be plunged into darkness that will affect its thriving tourism industry.
The city government of Davao has reminded the public on the scheduled temporary closure of road networks starting today, March 22, due to the series of race events in the city.
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