Damgo sa matag Pilipino ang makalingkawas gikan sa kuko sa kawad-on, ug edukasyon ang labing halangdong agianan padulong sa maong damgo. [It is every Filipino’s dream to extricate ones’ self from the clutches of poverty and education is the most honorable way towards that dream.]
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte pledges P6-million for the city's collaborative program with Action Against Hunger (ACF) called Generation Nutrition to combat child malnutrition in the city. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
The New People’s Army denied that they had a hand in the killing of Laak Mayor Reynaldo Navarro saying that they have “not considered him an enemy that warrants a standing order.”
Again my former student and friend from the Davao School for the Blind, Willie G, gave me a surprise visit the other day. This time he brought along a short but interesting anecdote about animals— a fable, we call it— purportedly to prick my mind into a critical discussion about its allegorical meaning. Immediately after he finished retelling the fable, he asked, “Sir Don, unsa may pagtulun-ang atong makuha aning istoryaha?” [Sir Don what lesson can we get from this story?]
The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan Southern Mindanao led a hundredpersons on a picket Monday at the Davao Light and Power Company office in Bajada as consumers were irate for paying higher rates in spite of four to six hours of rotational brownouts last April. Bayan said the Aboitiz-owned company has been conditioning the public to pay higher rates, as they blamed the government’s public-private partnership for enforcing the monopoly of elite power players. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)