By IRENE V. DAGUDOG
Davao Today
“The protests will be borderless, in the sense that netizens from all over the country, and all over the world, will be joining in one way or another. It will be a day for the aggressive exercise of free speech” — Renato Reyes, secretary general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan
By ACE R. MORANDANTE
Davao Today
In the December Swat operations, authorities said they recovered from her bag a “high-powered initiator container with a switch.” But Lee denied the accusation.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
“Abolishing the PCGG would mean stopping the investigation against the Marcoses. Won’t this take precedence? That those who are in power will commit crimes with impunity because they can just get away with it?” – Fe Salino of the Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“Rodrigo Duterte should not be deflected by this obvious AFP bullying and must continue with his pro-people stance” — Rubi del Mundo, NDFP spokesman in Southern Mindanao
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
The effect of Pablo in this province and even that of Compostela Valley — where over a thousand were killed, thousands more were injured and destroyed billions worth in agriculture and infrastructure — showed years of wanton forest denudation that was not stopped by government laws and policies.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“That drone is another concrete evidence, in addition to those that already piled up through the years, of how the US intervenes overtly and covertly, in our affairs as a nation.” – Atty. Carlos Zarate, Union of People’s Lawyers in Mindanao
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
IPO interpreted the high approval ratings in the lower income classes to the co-relation between family planning and poverty and with the notion that those who have less in life have less in education and less in sex education.
By IRENE V. DAGUDOG
Davao Today
“The typhoon and floods may have swept away, if not killed, my loved ones and wrecked our house. But it didn’t break my spirit,” she said as she hoped for a brighter day.
By MEDEL V. HERNANI
Davao Today
“Dili man unta mi mamakwit kung wala nangabot ang mga sundalo,” Janet Belendres, 29, a resident of Sitio Kidale
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“Sana bilisan nila para makamit na ang ika-apat nga substantive agenda,” – Paul Paracha, parish priest, President Roxas
