ACT Teachers Partylist Representative Antonio Tinio (right) bats for salary increases of public school teachers and non-teaching personnel through House Bill 245. At left is ACT Davao spokesperson Elenito Escalante. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Barangay leaders of village in Magpet, North Cotabato said they planned to pass a resolution that would ask the government Armed Forces to spare their residents from counterinsurgency interrogations, saying that the mostly farmer residents have expressed fear for their lives while working in isolated farms.
Their exact number could not be immediately determined but random interviews with some of them revealed that government teaching positions are currently the better, if not, the only option over issues of security of tenure, higher paying job and other perks.
Activists in Davao blamed the power outage on the government for favoring private power firms over efficient public service. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
This city lags behind in awareness to prevent the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes the dreaded acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), as the number of HIV-AIDS cases rose in the first quarter of this year.