By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Emmanuel Jaldon of the Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Office said there were a total of 12,565 affected families with 39,582 dependents.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesman of the NPA’s Merardo Arce Command-Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command, said operatives of the NPA’s Guerilla Front 34 Operations Command arrested Pfc. Jesrel Colanggo (Jezreel Culango, according to the military) of the 60th Infantry Battalion and SPO1 Ruel Pasion of the Philippine National Police (PNP) at a checkpoint they set up in Mangloy village in Laak town, Compostela Valley on January 17. The NPA said they confiscated a .45 caliber pistol from their captives.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“Nagaklase na man ang DepEd karon, so kung asa sila gaklase, didto jud na (ang polling center), kung naa silay tent, didto mag voting (The DepEd has already resumed classes. Expectedly, the elections will be conducted there. If they have set up tents, then the voting will be held there).” — Villaneda Olang, Public Schools District Supervisor of the South District of Baganga town in Davao Oriental
By KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA
Davao Today
Clad in their traditional garb as they joined some 5,000 people from the different towns of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental, they asked, where is the government? And where is its promise of genuine relief and rehabilitation?
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
For human rights lawyer Edre Olalia of the National Union of Peoples Lawyers, Bautista’s appointment “fits in perfectly like a velvet glove on an iron fist. It jibes with the overall anti-people design that has resulted in continuing and disturbing human rights violations.”
“We survived in the sea by drinking rainwater,” Muldayah, one of the survivors DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Five Filipinos were…
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Carlos Isagani Zarate, former president of IBP Davao Chapter, in a press briefing said IBP was born 40 years ago in the country’s critical period during Martial Law declared by the late president Ferdinand Marcos.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Sobbing while delivering his speech under the late morning sun, Datu Matunao of the Matigasalog tribe in Sitio Bermuda, Mangayon village in Compostela town said, “Mag-unsa na lang mi? Among mga kayutaaan na-bar down na. Ang kabukiran nanga-opaw na tungod sa pagpangawkaw sa mga dagkong kompanya sa logging (What will happen to us now? Our lands have been destroyed, our mountains denuded by these big logging companies).”
By KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA
Davao Today
“Mahuman na ang ceasefire. Mahadlok mi kung musubsob ang operation sa military batok NPA.” — Juan, a resident of Sitio Kidale, Tambobong village
By MICK M. BASA
Davao Todayy
Indonesia has earlier donated 40 tons (40,000 Kg) of foods, blankets and medicines and a USD 1 million (PHP 40.63 million) grant to the Philippine government last December while renewing its joint military cooperation to pin down transnational terrorist groups.
