Davao City Police Chief Superintendent Vicente Danao announces the deployment of 1,000 police forces to secure public schools for the opening of classes starting with last week’s Brigada Eskwela. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Jimmie Loe dela Vega, director of Davao Association of Colleges and Schools, said tuition increases in Davao schools were set at a ceiling of seven per cent per unit. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Evelyn Cubelo (with mic) of the BAN Toxics group said they have introduced a mercury-free gold processing facility that will use instead gravity and borax for some 5,000 small scale-miners in Mt. Diwata, Monkayo, Compostela Valley province. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
A woman displays school patches and ribbons for school uniforms in time for enrollment for school starting this week. The vendor earns around 300 pesos a day. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Students of Salugpungan Learning School of Talaingod, Davao del Norte reenact their community's experience of harassment from the military during a public forum last week on human rights and militarism at Brokenshire College Chapel. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)