Posts by tag: Mindanao

11 years ago

Today’s View: From Poverty to Frivolity?

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Today’s View: From Poverty to Frivolity?

By DON J. PAGUSARA

Davao Today

Indeed, it sounds like a frivolity for Mr. Virgilio Almario to advance a proposal that is meant to change the spelling of Pilipinas toFilipinas.  Of all the urgent matters and issues that need to be addressed, here comes a very inconsequential proposition that wouldn’t at all touch the daily lives of our people.

11 years ago

MULTIPURPOSE

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After hours of picking and transporting garbage which they sell at the junk shops, a father and child take respite…

11 years ago

RETAINED

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Pepito Capili (right), chief of the Davao City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, says 15 percent of the job…

11 years ago

Fathers of NPA captives seek help of Third Party Facilitator, Duterte for the release of their sons

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By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA

Davao Today

Bishop Modesto Villasanta, spokesperson for the Sowing the Seeds of Peace, said they are always ready to facilitate such request.  His group already facilitated a number of releases of NPA captives in the different far-flung areas in the region.  They acted upon the request of the families, local government units and church denominations, among others.

11 years ago

SHAM FRIENDSHIP

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Student activists in Davao City led by Anakbayan celebrate the Fil-Am Friendship Day on Thursday with a protest. They slammed…

11 years ago

TIME IS RUNNING OUT

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Peace advocates in Mindanao worry that only one of the four annexes contained in the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro…

11 years ago

NO TO US INTERVENTION

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“Access arrangement” with foreign troops is contrary to national sovereignty, national interest and the Constitution. This was how members of…

11 years ago

PROTOCOL

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Merilo Limbaro, Director of the Department of Interior and Local Government in Davao City, says there’s already an existing ordinance…

11 years ago

5 HIV cases reported in Sto. Tomas

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By MART D. SAMBALUD

Davao Today

Based on the data pooled from the confirmed HIV/AIDS cases, the proliferation of the deadly HIV virus attributed to their “risky sexual behaviors” which involves engaging in “unprotected” sex with multiple partners, high needle sharing, practice of anal sex and low condom use, among others.