Photos by MEDEL V. HERNANI, ACE R. MORANDANTE & TYRONE A. VELEZ Text by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Assessing Aquino’s performance since 2012, various sectors and organizations criticized his administration on different issues, thus, giving him a “failing mark.” They said, regional issues “depict the worsening plight of workers, farmers, the urban poor, consumers, and intensified threat to the environment.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Bearing banners and placards, they converged in Lanao Village before they stormed various government agencies, venting out their disgust over Aquino’s “priority programs and projects” which they blame for the people’s continuing suffering.
By MICK M. BASA & MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Before he stands on the podium and delivers the Sona, Davao Today gathered the thoughts of the President’s “bosses” -- the Filipinos. What do they expect or want to hear during his Sona?
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today Supported by 550 other inmates, the 12 who are political prisoners expressed “dismay” against the Aquino government’s continued refusal to grant them freedom.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Davao city has 12 relocation sites situated in the areas of Tibungco, Panacan, Mintal and Toril populated by more or less 8,000 beneficiaries according to Rigor.