By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Unknown to the Filipino people, their love for and devotion to the English language carries with it an adoration of all things and stuffs associated with the language. Truly, we have fallen into the cultural trap of loving everything English. Or everything that comes with the language of the Americans.
By ACE R. MORANDANTE
Davao Today
Human rights lawyer Carlos Zarate, the legal counsel of Tentorio’s case, said “Loloy” is the missing link and has urged the CHR to find him.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Davao Today
Gary Martinez, International Chairperson of Migrante says their organization has helped 15 of these OFWs finally return to the country last Saturday, two of them are from Davao City. “They can talk about how they were treated by embassy officials in Riyadh,” he says.
By DAVAO TODAY
Richard Baguio Saavedra of AdDU Class 2012 garnered 96 percent rating, the highest among the 1,553 passers. The Professional Regulation Commission said there were a total of 5,665 examinees.
By DAVAO TODAY
Eddie Cañon, 43, a resident of Sitio San Isidro was killed in Nuevo Iloco village. He sustained 13 multiple gunshot wounds in his head and body.
By MART D. SAMBALUD
Davao Today
Sagalas, according to Msgr. Ullysses Perandos, the Vicar-General of the Diocese of Tagum, should “emanate hope, faith and love with simplicity as these were the three virtues of the blessed Virgin.”
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Under this program, land titles covered by Emancipation Patents and Certificate of Land Ownership Award or even pre-patent are accepted as collateral with chattel mortgage on the equipment. Collateral, thus, don’t have to be commercial or residential lots, unlike before.
By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today
I don’t know if I can afford one if ever I will have kids in the future given the K+12 Law and the commercialization of education. It is a sad and infuriating fact that education should liberate us from the quagmires of poverty but it is the one thing which drives us to despair knowing that our children and our children’s children may never get one.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Maybe, the deplorable circumstance of history, making us enslaved to a foreign language and culture, would hold sway for many generations yet to come. And this certainly constitutes one of the fundamental elements that hold back our movement forward to progress, especially to freedom from poverty.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Davao Today
“As this school year marks the second year of implementing government’s new K+12 program, it only adds to the already chaotic public school system in the country.” – Elenito Escalante, public high school teacher & President of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers of the Philippines Davao Region Union
