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Jailed Davao broadcaster too poor to afford a lawyer asks for help

If media persons in Manila are raising a howl for being detained for hours without committing a crime, imagine how hard it would be for one to be sentenced to about six years in prison just because one could not afford a lawyer.

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Davao militants learn lessons from Trillanes’s botched coup

By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today

For the militants in Davao City, if there is one thing to learn from the botched coup at the Manila Peninsula Hotel led by Lt. Senior grade Antonio Trillanes IV and Brigadier General Danilo Lim, it should be this: "Banking on spontaneity is not enough."

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Poor and landless after 19 years of CARP

By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today

Jolito Divinagracia and Ranel Enoc are among the farmers in Tamugan, Calinan district, whose parents are beneficiaries of the government's Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). But almost 20 years into the program, both their families are still having a hard time acquiring the land supposedly awarded to them.

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Duterte stays loyal to Arroyo but says Trillanes’s move was ‘understandable’

By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today

At the height of the stand-off at the Manila Peninsula Hotel, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said President Arroyo called him. "She asked me how we are doing here and if she still has my support,? Duterte saida. ?I said, ?Yes, ma'am.?" For more coverage of the Makati standoff, visit PinoyPress.

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Arrest of Journalists Covering Peninsula Standoff: An Unprecedented Outrage

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility on the Arrest of Members of the Media Covering the Peninsula Hotel Incident

Never in the turbulent recent history of the Philippines has any government, including that of Ferdinand Marcos, ever taken into custody members of the media who were on the scene to do their jobs.

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