By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Impunity, the activists say, because perpetrators remain scot-free, if not, unpunished.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
WeGovern president and former Gabriela Women’s party-list representative Liza Maza said the institute’s basic advocacy is to increase the number of women in politics and all levels of governance.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
“It’s very ironic that Kidapawan City and the rest of the province continue to suffer from rotational brown-outs when we host two Mt. Apo geothermal plants that have the combined capacity of 104 MW,” said Ruby Padilla-Sison of the Makabayan Peoples Coalition.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
In the first place, the ‘artificial crisis,’ according to Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Southern Mindanao, was a result of the government’s sellout of two diesel-powered power barges in the island, the power barge No. 117 in Nasipit town, Agusan del Norte and No. 118 in Maco, Compostela Valley, to the Aboitiz-owned Therma Marine Incorporated. These power barges have a combined 200-MW generation capacity.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
According to Casiño, the Imem is similar to the existing wholesale electricity spot market in Luzon and is said to be also very dangerous “because it may easily be manipulated by power players.”
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Alan said the soldiers also took the other belongings he was carrying. “They threw my shirts on the mud and trampled them. They even tore the malong (a native blanket) that I was bringing. They said it was proof that I was indeed an NPA,” Allan said.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Pikit town received a total of 30,816 bags of rice and 444 bags of beans for the whole duration of the feeding program. WFP has allocated a total of 124,918 bags of rice and 2,505 bags of beans for the whole province.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Joel Mahinay of the Union of People’s Lawyers in Mindanao said that “the ruling is anathema to the nature of a public trial and transparency,” adding that the trial “involves public interest which any invocation of the individual right of the accused must be subordinated.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
“The action was part of the continuing punitive measure being carried out by the NPA’s 1st Pulang Bagani Company against the 10th Infantry Division-Armed Forces of the Philippines to counter its atrocious methods of terrorizing the peasant and Lumad masses in Paquibato District, Davao City” — Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesperson of the NPA’s Merardo Arce Command
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
The recent moves of the Council, Librado-Yap said, would serve civilians “who want the soldiers to leave their communities because they can protect themselves.”
