Davao City Police Chief Superintendent Vicente Danao announces the deployment of 1,000 police forces to secure public schools for the opening of classes starting with last week’s Brigada Eskwela. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Jimmie Loe dela Vega, director of Davao Association of Colleges and Schools, said tuition increases in Davao schools were set at a ceiling of seven per cent per unit. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Evelyn Cubelo (with mic) of the BAN Toxics group said they have introduced a mercury-free gold processing facility that will use instead gravity and borax for some 5,000 small scale-miners in Mt. Diwata, Monkayo, Compostela Valley province. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
“No guarantee of right.” -- This is the ominous message of an international alliance of labor rights groups to workers in countries, the Philippines included, which were rated as the world’s worst places to work.
Residents here have started publicly airing their worry over the plan of private hospitals to bill in full the patients' hospital expenses leaving the patients to collect by themselves the reimbursements from the office of the Philippine Health Insurance Commission (PhilHealth).