By IRENE V. DAGUDOG
Davao Today
“The typhoon and floods may have swept away, if not killed, my loved ones and wrecked our house. But it didn’t break my spirit,” she said as she hoped for a brighter day.
By MEDEL V. HERNANI
Davao Today
“Dili man unta mi mamakwit kung wala nangabot ang mga sundalo,” Janet Belendres, 29, a resident of Sitio Kidale
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“Sana bilisan nila para makamit na ang ika-apat nga substantive agenda,” – Paul Paracha, parish priest, President Roxas
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
The CPP said it abbreviated the ceasefire order to ensure that NPA units and people’s militias “will not be placed in an unduly disadvantaged position” when the AFP supposedly ends its Somo by Wednesday midnight.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“Og ako lang, dugay na ning nahuman. Dugay na kong nisulti (sa mga Komunista) nga pili mo’g cabinet. Ayaw lang ng armed forces, ayaw lang ng BIR (Bureau of Internal Reveneu), DAR (Department of Agrarian Reform) ug DSWD (Department of Social Welfare and Development),” Duterte said.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Duterte only affirmed what the communist movement has been saying all along: that “imperialist logging, mining and agri-business plantations” exacerbate climate change and hasten the earth’s degradation.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
The ceasefire coverage, Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesman of the NPA’s Merardo Arce Command-Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command said, is extended to other parts of their regional jurisdiction which are not directly hit by typhoon Pablo to help address the said crisis especially in the more than 24 towns in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental where over 33 percent of its “revolutionary forces” live and over a million of peasants, workers, lumads and ordinary poor are affected.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
During the special session of the City Peace and Order Council Monday at the City Hall, Mayor Sara Duterte expressed concern whether authorities manning the checkpoints know how to profile and identify suspected terrorists.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“It will have profound implications for improving the health and lives of women throughout the country,” said Carlos Conde, Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“To say that the NPA ”kidnapped” children who were also victims of Pablo, is indeed, a claim that only the fascist and devious AFP can readily concoct and spin.” — Ka Boyet Makatindog, spokesperson of NPA’s Guerilla Front 34
