Read more about the article Lawmaker to probe on abuses vs Bukidnon farmers recruited in Hacienda Luisita
Anakpawis Partylist Rep. Ariel Casilao said In a phone interview with Davao Today, the farmers took a ferry from the Manila Pier going to Cagayan de Oro City. (davaotoday.com file photo)

Lawmaker to probe on abuses vs Bukidnon farmers recruited in Hacienda Luisita

Anakpawis Representative Ariel Casilao is set to file a house resolution to investigate the alleged abuses against farmers from Bukidnon province recruited to work in Hacienda Luisita.

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Read more about the article Solons bash Duterte’s economic managers over SSS pension hike
Bayan Muna Partylist Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate and former Rep. Neri Colmenares, also from Bayan Muna Partylist (davaotoday.com file photo)

Solons bash Duterte’s economic managers over SSS pension hike

Militant lawmakers slammed the economic managers of President Rodrigo Duterte over the Social Security System pension hike issue and dared them to live with P40 only, the present daily equivalent of the P1,200 monthly base pension of the country’s SSS pensioners.

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Read more about the article Nearly 500 Davao fire incidents recorded in ’16
AFTER THE FIRE. Residents try to salvage what they could still use from the remains of a fire that razed about 23 houses in Purok A, Barangay 19-B, in Davao City on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 27, 2016. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)

Nearly 500 Davao fire incidents recorded in ’16

The Bureau of Fire Protection here recorded 486 fire incidents last year.

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