Rights advocates called it a double standard when local officials slammed a Manila-based comedian for joking in public that Davaoenas were “hipon (shrimps).”
Branding it “a fight for greater accountability and transparency from our government leaders”, various church-based groups supported for a “people’s initiative” seeking for the total abolition of pork barrel system.
Was the video showing Davao City Police Director Vicente Danao slapping his wife in a quarrel a private matter?
Yes indeed, President Noynoy Aquino, by his own body language and pronouncements, has revealed the true dyed-in-the-wool trapo that he is. From a deceitful stance of a reformist leader as an elected state official, he has fast transformed into a political werewolf — power-thirsty! — no different from his predecessor whom he has frequently made a convenient scapegoat for all his kapalpakan.
Member-consumers of Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative under the Cooperative Development Authority faction (Daneco-CDA) would be charged criminally for “illegal reconnection” of their lines at the time the faction took over management of Daneco.
Isidro Indao from the Manobo tribe argues against the current tourism-linked festivities of the tribal harvest festival saying the Kadayawan festivities are not the answer of the plight of the tribes’ problem. on hunger and military operations. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Matigsalug tribal members show their bountiful harvest of crops and fruits during the Subang sa Sinugdanan, a river festival at the Bankerohan River. The Matigsalugs are known to reside along the river banks. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
