BANNING PROTESTS. City Councilor Mabel Sunga Acosta, chairperson of the committee on public safety presides over the public hearing to discuss the request of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) to ban all forms of protests outside the Department of Public Works and Highways compound which houses the Presidential Guest House in Panacan in Davao City. The public hearing was attended by the city’s security sector and leaders of the progressive group, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan. (Mara S. Genotiva/davaotoday.com)