Another broadcaster shot dead in Tagum City
Butalid is the third journalist killed in the country in the past three weeks, all in Mindanao, following Joas Dignos in Valencia, Bukidnon on November 29 and Michael Milo in Surigao City on December 9.
NEA wins over CDA in DANECO board
CDA board chair Abenir Labja slammed the decision as a “conspiracy” to dismantle electric cooperatives in favor of “big power players like Aboitiz, Pangilinan and San Miguel.”
DANECO PRIVATIZATION SLAMMED
Women consumers of DANECO picket the DANECO NEA office in Tagum City during the SONA protesting the purchase of P260 million generator sets and moves to privatize the electric cooperative. (davaotoday.com photo by MART D. SAMBALUD)
Davao rallyists slam ‘lies’ in Aquino’s SONA
Students marched through universities to protest state budget cuts and high cost of education. Workers held a rally in a strike camp to demand job security. Farmers held a picket at a military headquarters to decry militarization and abuses. The rallies culminated with a burning of Pres. Aquino’s effigy in a gathering at the city’s Rizal Park in the afternoon.
WHO’S PAYING?
Rodel Arquiza (right) of Save Daneco Movement raised concerns on the cooperative's P300 million loan for expensive generator sets which he says will be passed on to consumers and cooperative members. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)