Bureau of Fire Protection Fire Inspector Nestor Jimenez clarifies that the damage of the grass fire in Mt. Apo, as per the assessment of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, is around 151 hectares and not 300 to 400 hectares as reported. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Davao City Administrator Melchor Quitain says P31.5 million will be utilized to buy 15,000 sacks of rice for the farmers in Cotabato province. On April 1, 2016, thousands farmers formed a barricade at the national road of Kidapawan, calling the provincial government of Cotabato to release the calamity fund for those affected by the continued dry spell. (Ace R.Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles shows to the members of the press the letter of Pope Francis to Presidential candidate Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
These women farmers from Arakan Valley cry out of fear after their colleagues reported that their sanctuary in Spottswood Methodist Center, Kidapawan City will be bombed and entered by the police. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Around 165 sacks of rice donated by private sector from Davao City arrived in Kidapawan City on Saturday evening, April 2. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Police troops blocked 300 Makilala farmers from entering the Spottswood United Methodist Center in Kidapawan on Sunday noon, April 3. The farmers were facilitated by Makilala Mayor Rudy Caoagdan for them to get their share of the sacks of rice donated by the private sectors. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
A member of Kabataan Partylist shows a picture of a still unidentified farmer who was killed during the dispersal on Friday, April 2 in Kidapawan City, to a group of farmers inside the compound of Spottswood Methodist Center. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
The two grade 1 pupil Weber Chavit, 8 years old and Anthony Dandan, 7 years old hug their teacher, Marian, after the recognition day of the Community Technical College of the Southeastern Mindanao Incorporated at Barangay Lapu-lapu, Maco, Compostela Valley Province. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
As early as 1:00 am Thursday, March 31 police woke up protesters from their sleep with their loud sound system inviting protesters to go home as they brought with them dump trucks provided by the provincial government to ferry them.
Farmers demanding rice subsidy from the government stay in their picket line along Quezon Boulevard in Kidapawan City for two days as of Thursday, March 31. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
