Davao City Councilor Leah Librado-Yap holds her son in hand during Thursday’s I-Speak Forum at City Hall to announce the city’s activities in observance of Children’s Month spearheaded by her committee on women and children. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
John Carlo Tria (right), program head of the coming Davao Trade Expo (DATE) 2013 said this event will promote the intercropping of “five golden crops” to help farmers vie for export market. Joining him is Expo chair Agatha Salanatin-Valencia (left) during Thursday’s I-Speak Forum at City Hall. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Agusan Manobo tribal leader Datu Librando Peres from Barangay Sabud, Loreto, Agusan del Sur, narrated during the Karapatan press conference narrates how the agreement between residents, Loreto Mayor Dario Otaza and the miltary were violated as the Philippine Army’s 26th Infantry Battalion encamp in their communities’ schools and houses, and also strafed houses and places of worship. Peres demanded for the pullout of troops so the communities can return in peace. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani
An activist from Youth Act Now calls for the prosecution of officials involved in corruption and misuse of pork during a picket Wednesday along Jones Circle in Acacia & CM Recto junction. Anti-pork rallyists slam the Aquino’s Presidential Social Fund and the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) which they say promote patronage politics. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
A kid reads a protester’s placard slamming ‘bureaucrat capitalism’ or the abuse of government position for personal gain, during Wednesday’s protest by Youth Act Now, which condemned the retention of Presidential pork barrel known as Presidential Social Fund and the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Jeanette Ampog, executive director of the non-government organization Talikala, urged the government to provide social services and livelihood suited for survivors of prostitution in Davao. Talikala announced in Monday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City-Annex that they will join other groups in holding the International Day of No Prostitution on October 5, 2013. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Atty. Samuel Matunog, president of Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-Davao announced during the Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City-Annex the staging of the 2013 Innovation Expo (iEx) on October 11 and 13, 2013, at Seda Hotel and SM City Davao, respectively. The iEX will highlight innovations for healthcare and education sectors. At right is National ICT Council of the Philippines (NICP) president Lizabel G. Holganza. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
A boy at Bankerohan Public Market tries holds a durian in one hand and a price tag in another hand as he enticed market-goers. Despite of the low price, durian and other market products however are earning less due to the security issues hitting the city. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Despite the city’s strict helmet rules for motorcycle riders, some incidents such as this family allowing a kid to ride without his helmet slipped past traffic management personnel that police the streets. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Former Senator Panfilo Lacson gave the keynote address during Friday’s Davao City Chamber of Commerce General Members Meeting held in Marco Polo Hotel. Lacson said on the corruption in Congress and other government branches, “the antidote to the moral decay is we, the Filipino people. The formula is the people’s vigilance on government’s complacency. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
