President Benigno Aquino III commends business groups and local officials during the launch of the Mindanao Inclusive Agribusiness Program of the Philippine Business for Social Progress and Mindanao Development Authority at SMX Convention Center Lanang last Monday. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Members of the Radio Mindanao Network Davao Employees Union express indignation over management’s refusal to open negotiations for a new collective bargaining despite mediation by labor officials Thursday. The union is set to go on strike to press their demands. (Tyrone A. Velez/davaotoday.com)
A container van carrying toxic chemical fell off the truck and onto the road fronting the Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Elementary School. School officials called off classes to keep school children away from the pungent fume, as health and rescue personnel work out a containment against the effect of the formic acid, a chemical used to harden rubber. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Globe telecommunications partners with the Foundation for the Philippine Environment, donating mobile phones, SIM cards and insurance policies to 42 volunteer forest guards and local watershed monitoring, including barangay officials to guard biodiversity initiatives in the Panigan-Tamugan watershed. The area is being tapped of its pristine surface water from the Tamugan River for Davao City’s northeastern barangays and to relax extraction of water from the underground aquifers. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Bayan and Gabriela spokespersons, Sheena Duazo and Mae Ann Sapar, respectively, were poured with blood in the militant’s version of Ice Bucket Challenge. The “blood session” was meant to urge the cessation of militarization and the resumption of peace negotiations between the Philippine Government and the National Democratic Front. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
League of Filipino Student spokesperson Juno Vegas slammed Captain Nathaniel Morales of the 10th Infantry Division- AFP for tagging members of progressive organizations as communists.(PAce Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Kharlo Manano, Secretary general of children’s group SALINLAHI slammed the disruption of classes as a result of the encampment of the Army’s 60th IB in farflung schools in Kapalong, Davao del Norte. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Militant Lumad leader Dolphing Ogan criticized top officials of Kapalong town, Davao del Norte for blocking the entry of delegates of National Interfaith Mission last week.(Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
PASAKA Southern Mindanao spokesperson Isidro Indao accused the Army’s 60th Infantry Battalion as behind the throwing of spikes against a contingent of visiting human rights advocates in sitio Kapatagan, Barangay Gupitan, Kapalong, Davao del Norte. Indao said indigenous peoples only use bamboo spikes or bagacay weapon for hunting or for their tribal wars. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte gives this advice to Davao City Police Chief VIcente Danao who was relieved from office in the wake of domestic abuse charges filed by his wife. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
