P311 million budget for teachers’ yearly medical check-up sought

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.”

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War, agrarian projects force lumads to struggle for ancestral land

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.

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Recipients of NDF indemnification call gesture as ‘sincere’

By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today “I thank the NPA that even though I only sprained my ankle when we ran for safety after the blast, they still included me in the indemnification.  And I thank them for admitting responsibility.  They truly are sincere,” said Primitiva Dadula, 56.

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