SMALL MINERS PROTEST. Small scale miners from Pantukan, Compostela Valley stormed the Mines and Geosciences Bureau regional office in Davao to oppose the agency’s scheme to have them registered and given an identification card,
saying this legitimizes the entry of multinational corporations that would dislodge them. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte gets the celebrity treatment as he poses with delegates in the National Convention of the Philippine Association of Water Districts at SMX Convention Center. (Ace Morandante/ davaotoday.com)
Activists staged a picket at the entrance of Waterfront Hotel during a public consultation Thursday on amendments on the EPIRA law, in which groups such as Bayan called for its repeal as it pushes monopoly of corporations on the energy sector. (Ace R. Morandante/ davaotoday.com)
MAYOR WELCOMES INDONESIAN COMMANDER. Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (center) welcomes Indonesian Military
Area Command Major General Tril Bachtiar (right) and party who attended the Philippine-Indonesian Border Committee Chairman’s Conference with the AFP Eastern Mindanao Command. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Senator Ralph Recto speaks to reporters after his keynote speech calling for more government budget and support to some 800 local water districts during the Convention of the Philippine Association of Water Districts held in SMX Convention Center. (Ace R. Morandante, davaotoday.com)
A worker manages to smile and puff a smoke during a break in a construction along Magallanes Street. (Ace Morandante/ davaotoday.com)
National Food Authority Davao City Manager Felimon Cangreho appeared on Monday’s Kapehan sa SM saying that there has been no cases of illegal importation of rice in the city, nor does he have contacts with alleged rice smuggler Davidson Bangayan. (Ace Morandante/ davaotoday.com)
City Councilor Marissa Salvador-Abella, said her committee on agriculture will promote agriculture production in the city with focus on cacao. She also mentioned highlights in her trip to Thailand to observe agricultural production. (Ace Morandante/ davaotoday.com)
