Social media manager of Dakila Philippines-Davao Collective, Jessica Marie Madrazo (left) and campaigner Julia Jasmine Sta. Romana invite the public to attend the first ever Pecha Kucha Night on Saturday at Java Jive Quirino Street, Davao City. With the theme “Minute Movies: Telling Big Stories Through Short Films”, the event will gather artists and creative individuals to showcase their ideas and works. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Deputy Regional Director for Operation (DRDO) Sr. Supt. Aaron Aquino confirms the suspects of the rape against a minor from Barangay Palma Gil, Talaingod, Davao del Norte are identified as alias “Galot”, 40 years old and alias “Daniel” 20 years. Aquino, however, said he does not know whether they are Army members as claimed by progressive groups. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Personnel from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), led by head of Mindanao operations Peter Deck, visit Lumad evacuees in a church compound in Davao City. (John Rizle Saligumba/davaotoday.com)
First district councilor Mabel Sunga-Acosta poses with the five topnotchers of the Social Work board examination during their visit to the Sangguniang Panglungsod regular session Tuesday. 1,817 passed out of 2,654 examinees. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Kadayawan Executive Committee spokesperson Councilor Al Ryan Alejandre and Joseph Lawrence Garcia, assistant information officer of the City Information Office, present the latest identification cards for hobbyist photographers and bloggers, which are numbered to correspond to three designated areas.(Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Lita Ondag, an Ata-Manobo leader of Sitio Nalubas, Barangay Palma Gil in Talaingod Davao del Norte, joins the march and rally in Davao City Monday in observance of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples Day on August 9. The Lumads are calling for the protection of their yutang kabilin (ancestral lands) and environment from corporate plunder. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
After an international probe mission, Filipino-American youth, along with youth activists from various regions in Mindanao, play Filipino sports at the Magsaysay Park in Davao City. The ISM is a week-long event where international delegates visit tribal communities in Mindanao and take up issues of environmental plunder and militarization in the countryside. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Larry Miculob, Durian Council president, promotes the Durian Festival to the public this August 14 at a shopping mall in Lanang. Miculob said hundreds of Durian growers in Davao will participate in the activity. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Davao City Councilor Bernard Al-ag announces that there will be a Mountain Bike Competition on October 4 as part of the annual barangay fiesta in Toril District. The activity is hosted by the Saint Peters’College of Toril Alumni Association high school batch 1992 in which Al-ag is a member.
Jinky, 15 years old, is a Manobo evacuee from Kapalong, Davao del Norte. She joined other young people in a torch march on Saturday night to call for peace in Mindanao. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
