Majority floor leader Councilor Bernard Al-ag looks at the pictures of Darrell Dean Blatchley, an American bone collector and firefighter who led a team in fighting the fire that razed Mt. Apo on March of this year. Blatchley was commended by the 18th City Council through a resolution filed by Councilor Pilar Braga on September 20, Tuesday morning. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Fatima Manalo looks at the check handed to her by President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night, September 19, 2016. Fatima, 31, is a mother of six young children. She was selling barbecue at the Roxas night market when the blast happened and caused her an injury in the stomach on September 2. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
President Rodrigo Duterte’s eldest sister, Eleanor, says she will file charges against Edgar Matobato, the witness during the Senate hearing who linked the President to the extrajudicial killings in Davao City when he was still a mayor. In an interview on Friday, September 16, Eleanor said the allegations against his brother are untrue. (Maria Patricia C. Borromeo/davaotoday.com)
Activists led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan Southern Mindanao Region and the League of Filipino Students hold a protest action in San Pedro street, Davao City to urge President Rodrigo Duterte to pursue his plan of an independent foreign policy in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Philippine Senate’s rejection of the new treaty for the Subic Bay Naval Station and end to US military presence Friday,September 16. The groups called on Pres. Duterte to scrap the Visiting Forces Administration and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Estella Mae L. Partoza, one of the 75 striking workers of the Japanese company Nakashin Davao International, shows a certificate declaring the workers’ union, Nagkahiusang Mamumuo sa Nakashin (Namana) is registered with the Department of Labor and Employment. The barricade of the workers’ union was dispersed Thursday, September 15 after the Regional Trial Court ruled that the strike is illegal and the dispute is civil and not of labor in nature. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Lito Lao (right), vice chairman of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, speaks during a rally in front of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Region 11 office in Davao City on Thursday, September 15 to remind the agency of their promise to aid the Lumad evacuees staying at the UCCP Haran compound.(Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Task Force Davao commander Colonel Erwin Bernard Neri says the city should have modern security equipment to beef up security and reduce the time incurred in both mobile and static inspections currently conducted in the city. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Even after the filing of criminal charges against the primary suspect of the Davao blast, City Prosecutor Atty. Nestor Ledesma refuses to reveal the suspect’s name until a special panel composed of three prosecutors have reviewed the documents filed by the authorities at around 5:00 pm, Wednesday, September 14. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Even children visit the memorial site of the Davao bombing along Roxas Avenue at different times of the day to light candles and offer flowers and prayers for the victims. As of Monday night, September 12 the death toll rose to 15 after massage therapist Vicenta Asperin who was six months pregnant died while in coma. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Long-time Federalism advocate Architect Florencio Gavino III says that it will take the national government an approximate amount of P200 billion for the initial implementation of federalism based on studies by experts, and the proposal of the Kilos Pederalismo sa Pagbabago of dividing the country into five federal states. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
