By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Netizens have been up in arms, calling the law a new form of dictatorship in this digital age. They dubbed it, “electronic Martial Law.”
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Protesters believe that the US government is not doing enough to remove or ban the film from the internet.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
“Using the Automated Finger Print Identification System and other personal biometric information, voters with more than one registration can be easily identified”– City Elections Officer Dosdado Javier
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Jalandoni said the NDFP apology and indemnification “stand in stark contrast to the denial of responsibility by the AFP” for the many violations it committed such as the Hacienda Luisita massacre in November 2004 and the killing of nine-year-old pupil Grecil Buya in Kahayag village, Compostela Valley in March 2007.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
At about 8 AM on Monday, Razil Castro, was fixing the sadam truck parked outside his house when the gunman alighted from the motorcycle, witnesses say. The victim was shot eight times with a .45 caliber pistol. He sustained six gunshot wounds.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
“Poverty is the main reason why children are driven away from their homes and wander in the streets” — Alma Acera, advocacy officer, Tambayan Center for Children’s Rights
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“What De Lima has reported to US Congressmen is an utter distortion and denial of the country’s human rights situation”– Hanimay Suazo, secretary general, Karapatan in Southern Mindanao
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
“Gusto gid niya mag-uma (He really loved to farm)” — Fr. Peter Geremia, PIME
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Pursuant to the mandate, Section 22 of the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers or Republic Act 4670 provides for compulsory medical examination “free of charge for all teachers before they take up teaching, and shall be repeated not less than once a year during the teacher’s professional life.”
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
Indigenous tribes were displaced from their community in the government’s counter-insurgency programs that unleashed paramilitary groups in the hinterlands. When they returned to their lands, they found that settlers have applied their ancestral land for agrarian reform program and forestry projects.
