As schools in the country start their graduation rites this month, two tribal schools in Surigao del Sur province held their commencement and “moving up” ceremonies in a very different venue.
The entrance and exit points in the north part of the city was totally closed for more than six hours on Friday, March 18. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
During the March 16 rally attended by an estimated crowd of 20,000, Davao Today, talked to some of the supporters of Duterte to react on the issue that some of them has been tagged as “bully” in the social media.
The camp of presidential candidate and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte branded as “desperate” the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) move to implicate Duterte in an alleged 2014 fund misuse.
Thousands of farmers and indigenous people from the region put up a barricade outside the Army’s Eastern Mindanao Command here on Friday morning, March 18 to call for the pull out of the military from the communities and schools.
Presidential aspirant, Rodrigo Duterte is cheered by his hometown crowd during the grand rally held here on Wednesday, March 16.
Government troops tagged the farmer who was caught by the Army’s 2nd Special Forces Battalion (Airborne) as a member of Front Committee 21 of the Communist Party of the Philippines’ North Eastern Mindanao Regional Committee.
The camp of Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte belied reports that the Davao City mayor will not attend the second presidential debate scheduled in Cebu City on March 20.
Presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte and his running mate, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano topped two student mock polls in Visayas and Mindanao.
The Commission on Human Rights on Thursday, March 17, said it will be sending a team from Manila to investigate the torture case of an indigenous farmer that was allegedly tortured by the military and militias in Demoloc, Malita, Davao Occidental on February 19.
