Politics

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesman of the NPA’s Merardo Arce Command-Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command, said operatives of the NPA’s Guerilla Front 34 Operations Command arrested Pfc. Jesrel Colanggo (Jezreel Culango, according to the military) of the 60th Infantry Battalion and SPO1 Ruel Pasion of the Philippine National Police (PNP) at a checkpoint they set up in Mangloy village in Laak town, Compostela Valley on January 17.  The NPA said they confiscated a .45 caliber pistol from their captives.

By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today "Nagaklase na man ang DepEd karon, so kung asa sila gaklase, didto jud na (ang polling center), kung naa silay tent, didto mag voting (The DepEd has already resumed classes.  Expectedly, the elections will be conducted there.  If they have set up tents, then the voting will be held there).” -- Villaneda Olang, Public Schools District Supervisor of the South District of Baganga town in Davao Oriental

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today For human rights lawyer Edre Olalia of the National Union of Peoples Lawyers, Bautista’s appointment “fits in perfectly like a velvet glove on an iron fist.  It jibes with the overall anti-people design that has resulted in continuing and disturbing human rights violations.”

“We survived in the sea by drinking rainwater,” Muldayah, one of the survivors DAVAO CITY, Philippines -- Five Filipinos were rescued Saturday after drifting on a raft in Celebes Sea…