Taxi driver Danilo A. Dumalag receives a recognition from Davao City Police for demonstrating honesty to his passengers. Some 18 others were given citations at a ceremony at Camp Capt. Domingo E. Leonor on Monday, February 1. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
A member of Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) Southern Mindanao gives leaflets to passengers to protest against the current rotational brownouts from the Davao Light & Power company amid the full operation of the newly inaugurated 300 mega-watt coal fired power plant in Binugao, Toril. A unit of the plant was put under a seven-day corrective maintenance shutdown last January 23. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Senior citizens queue to avail free flu vaccines inside the new health center building beside Sasa Barangay Hall in Davao City. Free medicine beneficiaries arrive as early as 8:00 am on Friday. Vaccination begins at almost 11:00 am.(Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Lisette Marquez, City Tourism head, reports on the 35th ASEAN Tourism Forum, held in Davao City on January 18-25. The city hosted a previous ASEAN Tourism Forum 10 years ago. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Orlando L. Alvaira of the City Civil Registrar’s Office says the Civil Registration Week this February will focus on activities to educate the people to write their names properly to avoid errors and paying expensive sum to correct these clerical errors.(Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Norma Javellana, spokesperson of the Save Shrine Hills Advocates says the Comprehensive Land Use plan of 2013-2022 violated the procedures of amending zoning ordinances. Her group was not invited during the public hearings conducted last year. Also, she claims that the ordinance puts the city’s green spaces under threat. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
discuss about the passage of the Comprehensive Land Use plan of 2013-2022. Environmentalist groups Save Shrine Hills Advocates and the Interface Development Interventions opposed the ordinance due to its lack of public consultation. The ordinance awaits its third and final reading. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Fr. Bong Gonzaga, of the Saint Francis of Assisi Parish leads the prayer for the turnover ceremony of 86 motorcycles and 54 multicabs to every barangays in Davao City. The event held at the People’s Park was graced by presidential aspirant and Davao City Mayor, Rodrigo Duterte. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
A resident of Isla Noah, Barangay Lapu-lapu, Agdao district is guarding their houses due to the information that their community will be demolished. The residents said the demolition was reportedly to be carried out at 1:00 pm on Monday. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Activists from Bagong Alyansang Makabayan lead a protest action at the Mini Forest Gym in Davao City to commemorate the first year anniversary of the Mamasapano massacre that killed 44 Special Action Forces troopers and 23 other civilians and Moro fighters. The government’s botched operation targeted suspected terrorist Zulkifli Abdhir, alias Marwan. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
