By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Balisado said that the region has a total of 2.6 Million registered voters. With Davao City’s total 936,451 registered voters, a mayor or vice mayor are only allowed to spend only about PHP2.8M.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“We need to move forward to our next step to fight for the total elimination of the law instead of resting on our laurels on such a temporary victory,” Bai Ali Indayla, Kabataan Partylist’s second nominee, said.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
This, after the Department of Social Welfare and Development-XI refused to release the 10,000 sacks of rice committed by Sec. Corazon ‘Dinky’ Soliman even after the leaders had presented and submitted their distribution plan on Thursday, February 7.
By IRENE V. DAGUDOG
Davao Today
(Compostela Information Officer) Obenieta could not take it that victims of typhoon Pablo had to go out to the streets in act of protest against government inaction over their situation. To her, to hold a barricade was not just right thing to do because “the officials never lack in providing their needs and in appraising them on government intervention.”
By DAVAO TODAY
Maria Liyab Magtanggol, KM’s regional spokesman, said the group staged a quick rally last Tuesday in this city “to protest the reactionary US-Aquino regime’s incompetence and continued connivance with the imperialist US despite the worsening living conditions of the Filipino masses.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Data from the CHO noted that the Poblacion area has 10 cases of leptospirosis, Talomo North has five, Buhangin has four while there’s one case each in Agdao, Baguio, Marilog, Toril and Tugbok.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
The peasant group challenged De Lima to investigate first what really happened in the clash between protesting coconut farmers and the cops during last Thursday’s rally at the NAPC office before issuing “prejudicial statements.”
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
“Dance is itself an act of protest. It commands movement, not stillness. We cannot be still while women and girls are being raped, beaten, or hurt in any way. Every person dancing and rising with us on Valentine’s Day is registering collective rage at the violence inflicted on women and at the same time committing to action against it.” — Mary Ann Sapar, GWP-Southern Mindanao spokesperson
By DANILDA FUSILERO
Davao Today
“Gipasulod mi nila sa covenant para maundang ang gubot, pero wala man pud nasunod ang kasabotan (They made us agree to the covenant to resolve the conflict but they did not comply).” — Lilia Gicana, 54, a CLOA holder from Sitio Lacobe, Malabuan village, Makilala town
By IRENE V. DAGUDOG
Davao Today
“Gihisgotan sa Phillippine Development Forum (PDF) kung paunsa pa palig-onon ang pagbaligya sa atoang mga nasudnong bahandi pinaagi sa Public-Private Partnership (PPP),” said Sheena Duazo, of Bayan-Southern Mindanao, one of the groups which held a rally outside the Marco Polo Hotel during the first day of the gathering.
