This little island across Sitio Lawis of Kinablangan village in Baganga town Davao Oriental is home to about 1,500 residents…
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By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“We hope you would still care for us because we are just fisherfolks. To those of you who would win, please don’t stop considering us,” said Aning Lagbas, a village functionary in Isla Poo, part of Kinablangan village.
In Lambajon Central Elem School, the largest polling center in Baganga town, Davao Oriental, a generator for huge lamps is…
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Poll watchdog Kontra Daya said vote buying in Davao Oriental “is a common knowledge,” this is as they monitored fraud, corruption and violence in Pablo-hit areas like Lupon, Mati and Baganga.
Members of environment group Panalipdan and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan take to the streets Saturday to condemn the military for harassing the delegates of the April 18-20 National Humanitarian and FactFinding Mission in Barangay Binondo, Baganga, Davao Oriental. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay assailed the military’s action as it “shows the government’s desperation to cover up the situation of the victims of typhoon Pablo– the neglect of the victims’ needs, the corruption in its relief and rehabilitation efforts, and worst, the harassment of people who exposed these, leading to the killing of Cristina Jose, the leader of the Pablo victims’ organization.”
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Missioners were already on their way back to the town center from Sitio Limot in Barangay Binondo, the site of their relief mission, when their contingent met a roadblock allegedly set up by members of the Philippine Army’s 67thInfantry Battalion. The missioners are forced to spend the night in Sitio Cabuyao Nursery, Barangay Binondo in Baganga, the site of the infamous “Baganga Massacre” that killed three children in August 2002 when military allegedly strafed a house of the resident where members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were believed to be staying.
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).”
