The Alliance of Community Educators, a group of Lumad educators in Southern Mindanao, urges President Rodrigo Duterte to check the case of Dominiciano Muya and Amelia Pond who were accused of being members of the New People’s Army. The group calls for their immediate and unconditional release. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
The Alliance of Community Educators, a group of Lumad school teachers, reiterate their call to stop the attacks against their schools. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
A City Transportation and Traffic Management Office personnel paints a new road marking at the Roxas Night Market along Roxas Avenue, Davao City. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
A government employee installs Christmas decorations along Roxas Avenue, Davao City. The lanterns, locally called as parol will be lit every night starting Dec. 1. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Kitahashi Kenji, mayor of Kitakyushu City in Japan presents city councilor and majority floor leader Bernard Al-ag a painting to commemorate the agreement signed between his city and the local government of Davao during the council’s regular session on Tuesday, Nov. 15. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Davao City Councilor Halila Y. Sudagar urges the city mayor to sign the implementing rules and regulations of the Anti-Discrimination ordinance during the council’s regular session on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Sudagar said that discrimination is still rampant in the city, but the ordinance could not be used as a safeguard because of the absence of the IRR.
Davao City Councilor Bernard Al-ag presides over the 18th City Council’s regular session from a raised platform decorated with Christmas ornaments on Tuesday, Nov. 15. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Dr. Mike Ababon of the City Health Office announces the celebration of the World Vasectomy Day on Friday, November 18. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Engr. Melvin Dapitanan, focal person of the Davao City Airshed Governing Board says that since Davao City’s air quality is at “good and fair” levels for the years 2013-2016, they will measure the air quality again after three years. Dapitanan says the data from the previous years could not be compared because an older standard of measurement was used. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Engr. Nestor Patnugot, environment monitoring and enforcement division chief of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Region 11 says that over 70 percent of the air pollution in Davao City comes from motor vehicles. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)