By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Sobbing while delivering his speech under the late morning sun, Datu Matunao of the Matigasalog tribe in Sitio Bermuda, Mangayon village in Compostela town said, “Mag-unsa na lang mi? Among mga kayutaaan na-bar down na. Ang kabukiran nanga-opaw na tungod sa pagpangawkaw sa mga dagkong kompanya sa logging (What will happen to us now? Our lands have been destroyed, our mountains denuded by these big logging companies).”
By KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA
Davao Today
“Mahuman na ang ceasefire. Mahadlok mi kung musubsob ang operation sa military batok NPA.” — Juan, a resident of Sitio Kidale, Tambobong village
By MICK M. BASA
Davao Todayy
Indonesia has earlier donated 40 tons (40,000 Kg) of foods, blankets and medicines and a USD 1 million (PHP 40.63 million) grant to the Philippine government last December while renewing its joint military cooperation to pin down transnational terrorist groups.
By IRENE V. DAGUDOG
Davao Today
“The protests will be borderless, in the sense that netizens from all over the country, and all over the world, will be joining in one way or another. It will be a day for the aggressive exercise of free speech” — Renato Reyes, secretary general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan
By ACE R. MORANDANTE
Davao Today
In the December Swat operations, authorities said they recovered from her bag a “high-powered initiator container with a switch.” But Lee denied the accusation.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
“Abolishing the PCGG would mean stopping the investigation against the Marcoses. Won’t this take precedence? That those who are in power will commit crimes with impunity because they can just get away with it?” – Fe Salino of the Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“Rodrigo Duterte should not be deflected by this obvious AFP bullying and must continue with his pro-people stance” — Rubi del Mundo, NDFP spokesman in Southern Mindanao
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
The effect of Pablo in this province and even that of Compostela Valley — where over a thousand were killed, thousands more were injured and destroyed billions worth in agriculture and infrastructure — showed years of wanton forest denudation that was not stopped by government laws and policies.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“That drone is another concrete evidence, in addition to those that already piled up through the years, of how the US intervenes overtly and covertly, in our affairs as a nation.” – Atty. Carlos Zarate, Union of People’s Lawyers in Mindanao
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
IPO interpreted the high approval ratings in the lower income classes to the co-relation between family planning and poverty and with the notion that those who have less in life have less in education and less in sex education.
