Politics

By ACE R. MORANDANTE Davao Today In the December Swat operations, authorities said they recovered from her bag a “high-powered initiator container with a switch.”  But Lee denied the accusation.

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today “Abolishing the PCGG would mean stopping the investigation against the Marcoses.  Won’t this take precedence?  That those who are in power will commit crimes with impunity because they can just get away with it?” – Fe Salino of the Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “Rodrigo Duterte should not be deflected by this obvious AFP bullying and must continue with his pro-people stance” -- Rubi del Mundo, NDFP spokesman in Southern Mindanao

By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today The effect of Pablo in this province and even that of Compostela Valley -- where over a thousand were killed, thousands more were injured and destroyed billions worth in agriculture and infrastructure -- showed years of wanton forest denudation that was not stopped by government laws and policies.

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “That drone is another concrete evidence, in addition to those that already piled up through the years, of how the US intervenes overtly and covertly, in our affairs as a nation.” – Atty. Carlos Zarate, Union of People’s Lawyers in Mindanao