A Davao City councilor said the city's internal revenue allocation (IRA) from the national budget has been reduced this year but the budget department claims that there has been no such reduction.
MAYOR WELCOMES INDONESIAN COMMANDER. Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (center) welcomes Indonesian Military Area Command Major General Tril Bachtiar (right) and party who attended the Philippine-Indonesian Border Committee Chairman's Conference with the AFP Eastern Mindanao Command. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Senator Ralph Recto speaks to reporters after his keynote speech calling for more government budget and support to some 800 local water districts during the Convention of the Philippine Association of Water Districts held in SMX Convention Center. (Ace R. Morandante, davaotoday.com)
Women’s lives have been under scrutiny again in a national scene with the media hype on actor Vhong Navarro mauling for the last two weeks. Deniece Cornejo may represent a number of Filipino women designated with a “character.” Such designation troubles me both as a practitioner of social work and as a womanist or women human rights activist.
A worker manages to smile and puff a smoke during a break in a construction along Magallanes Street. (Ace Morandante/ davaotoday.com)