An alliance of education advocates lamented that the Department of Education local officials have not responded to their pleas for the opening of several schools for indigenous peoples in the region.
Relatives of the victims of the alleged “massacre” in Paradise Embac, Paquibato District here trooped to the City Council on Tuesday calling for justice for their slain family members.
Dismissed workers of a banana company warned that they will call upon the members of their association to launch a wider strike should the management fail to reinstate them.
A group of drivers from Mabuhay Group sought help from the City Council Tuesday, to complain about the management’s decision to terminate over a hundred of its employees since June 11.
The house where a tribal leader and two others were allegedly killed by Army troops in Paquibato District Saturday midnight hosted a birthday party, said a human rights group.
A soldier and three other Army men fell as casualties in a recent attack of the New People’s Army in Bukidnon on Sunday afternoon.
The military on Sunday announced they killed three members of the New People’s Army in Paquibato District here, but human rights group Karapatan condemned the killing as a “massacre” of three civilian tribal leader, village (purok) leader, and a resident, as well as an attempted murder of a woman farmer leader.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said the closure of the indigenous peoples schools in Davao del Norte province is a “stupid idea”.
School children, particularly the boys were lining up a barber shop, arranged from the shortest to the tallest, each waiting for their turn for a haircut.
Private First Class Khen Subere denied he has gone Awol (absent without official leave) from the military during his capture by the New People’s Army a month ago.
