Mayor Rody Duterte said he would announce on August 13 if the Kadayawan Festival, the city’s main annual attraction, would push through or be cancelled following security considerations after the bombings in Mindanao. “If the margin of safety is 7.5, we’ll go ahead; but short of that let’s say at 5, we’ll go home and sleep early,” he explained. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
This Agusanon Manobo family sleeps off their exhaustion in Bankeohan Gym after riding eight hours to Davao City to seek refuge. Some 500 Manobos fled their village in Loreto, Agusan del Sur from military troops 24, and were not welcomed by their governor when they sought his help. (davaotoday.com photo by MEDEL V. HERNANI)
First District Councilor Atty. Melchor Quitain reads the Local Government Code during Tuesday’s City Council session to remind fellow councilors on the local government’s capacity to stop mining in the city. (davaotoday.com photo by MEDEL V. HERNANI)
Davao environmental advocates Juland Suazo (left) and Francis Morales (right) of Panalipdan listens to the city council deliberate on the proposal for a ‘no-mining zone’ in the city. (davaotoday.com photo by MEDEL V. HERNANI)
Where to Daang Matuwid?
A Badjao girl seems to be waiting for a ride to take her away from her plight of begging for money in Davao City’s busy JP Laurel Avenue. Poverty remains high in the region despite President Aquino’s declaration of ‘inclusive growth’. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Department of Agriculture XI Executive Director Remelyn Recoter (right) assures durian growers of technical support and funds which could be sourced from PDAF. At left is Rogelio Tabay from the City Agriculturist Office, who announces the Kadayawan Durian Festival slated on August 10 to 25 at SM Lanang Premier Fountain Court.(davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Department of Tourism Xl Director Art Boncato said the Davao City’s 7,000 hotels, apartelles, inns, lodging houses are ready to accommodate visitors and tourists for the month-long Kadayawan festivities. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
An Agusan Manobo child lets the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Eastern Mindanao Command in Panacan, Davao City know that military operations have affected the schooling of children in five barangays in Loreto, Agusan del Sur since the end of July. Around 1,000 Manobos including 300 children fled their villages for fear of hearing successive gunfire. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
An Agusanon lumad mother carries a child as they cross the river which is a boundary between Agusan del Sur and Compostela Valley. This is an exodus of nearly a thousand Agusanons from the town of Loreto after military operations affected their barangays. (davaotoday.com photo by John Rizle L. Saligumba)
Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Partylist Representative Antonio Tinio (left) and ACT Mindanao coordinator Prof. Mae Templa bat for legislative reforms for the public school sector including salary upgrade, regularization of contractual teachers and increase in allocation education from the national budget (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
