Mayor Rodrigo Duterte in his Sunday program Gikan sa Masa para sa Masa said that he will conduct another round of dialogue between the City Engineering Office and nongovernment organizations regarding the planned cutting of some 500 trees to rehabilitate the city’s main drain canal along Dacudao Street. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
UP Diliman Professor Luis V. Teodoro tells participants of the ongoing 18th Lopez Jaena Workshop in Manila that journalism is not just a job but is “one of the means that human beings have devised to understand the world and explain it by providing information through the news and other report” (contributed photo by Trisha Ann Samantha Aligato)
Atty. Prima Jesusa Quinsayas, one of the private prosecutors on the Ampatuan-Maguindanao massacre, presented some updates of the case during the 18th Lopez Jaena Community Journalism Workshop in Manila. (Earl Condeza/davaotoday.com)
A climate change official warned that authorities here should prepare for a scenario of prolonged drought in the region up to the first quarter of 2015.
The vigorous accent in its sound jolts the unsuspecting mind.. It is meant to make a kind of “wake-up” call—an audio stimulus designed to produce a quick response. The utterance attracts by its automatic association to the sound of a social upheaval—a revolution! It is like a call for a worthy mass undertaking akin to social transformation. And somehow it catches the imagination and generates reaction of the uncritical segment of the population.
Magallanes Elementary School Boy Scouts show their fancy drill performance during BSP Council Palaro 2014 held at the Camp Malagos, Calinan, Davao City. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Magallanes Elementary School Boy Scouts shout out their cheering for their delegation during the fancy drill performance at the Camp Malagos, Calinan where the BSP Council Palaro 2014 was held. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Students of the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP)-Tagum show their opposition to House Bill 4480 which seeks to merge state colleges and universities (SUCs) in Davao del Norte. The bill was filed by Congressman Anthony del Rosario. (Mart D. Sambalud/davaotoday.com)
Secretary Teresita Deles said the decommissioning of Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters under the current peace negotiations must be complete before the 2016 elections. Otherwise no party, including the MILF, may be allowedel to run in the Bangsamoro (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Dexter Ian Selebrado, 29, a peasant organizer, who was shot and wounded Monday afternoon after he attended the provincial-wide launching of People’s Initiative against pork barrel system in this city, tagged military agents and some local government officials to be the persons behind the said murder attempt.
