PNoy visits MILF camp with econ package, Murad cautious on substance of peace deal

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today MILF Chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim meanwhile, in his opening statement cited that while it is “a bold step” on the side of the GPH to forge partnership with them, they view it as a partnership, “not with the usual institutions of the government but with one of its adversaries in a remarkable journey to peace.”

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Pablo victims warn of bigger, bolder protests against DSWD, Aquino gov’t

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. 

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More persecution for Pablo barricaders

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.”

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