by DAVAO TODAY
By DAVAO TODAY
Davao Today
“The military has been committing grave abuses against civilians through its peace and development operations under the Aquino government’s counter-insurgency operational plan Bayanihan.” – Pastor Sadrach Sabella, Karapatan-Socsksargends coordinator
by JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“Siguro nasa 20 percent pa tayo (ng recovery), malaki pa masyado (ang hahabulin) lalo na sa agriculture.” — Compostela Valley Governor Arturo Uy
by DON J. PAGUSARA
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Colonial-mindedness should have been a thing of the past among us Filipinos. But it seems, the political helmsmen of our government, the educators and cultural policymakers of our society, are just drifting along with the trends set by the Americans. They should know better than to cater to these hollow circus brands of cultural acts. These only paint a deprecatory image of ourselves as a people and nation.
by DAVAO TODAY
Bayan Muna Party’s Representative-elect Carlos Isagani Zarate takes oath before Judge Virginia Europa Friday in Garden Oases, Davao City. Behind…
by ACE R. MORANDANTE
Condemning the worsening education crisis in the Philippines, youth groups from different universities and colleges led by Kabataan Party-list stage…
by ACE R. MORANDANTE
A traffic enforcer in Davao City issues a violation ticket against a cab driver for illegal terminal, when he parked…
by DAVAO TODAY
By DAVAO TODAY
Davao Today
The NPA said their “active counter-intelligence and subsequent operations” were meant to punish AFP units, especially the Civil Military Operations Battalion headed by Maj. Jake Obligado, for continuing to “encroach, settle and conduct psychological warfare and intelligence operations” in the villages of Paquibato District.
by DON J. PAGUSARA
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Education in this country is an elitist enterprise that caters only to the thin stratum of the upper middle classes who can afford, but subjects the grassroots to a buwad smell of literacy enough for them to be able to write the names of politicians in elections.
by DAVAO TODAY
By DAVAO TODAY
Davao Today
Captain Raul Villegas, public affairs officer of the 10th ID, said that Corporal Emmanuel Quezon; Privates First Class Ronald Gura, Bernie Padilla and Donato Estandia; and Private Marteniano Pasiagas Jr. were allegedly taken by the New People’s Army (NPA) under Leoncio ‘Ka Parago’ Pitao on Monday afternoon in Sitio Lubas, Paquibato Proper village in Paquibato District.
by DAVAO TODAY
Lloyd Montebon, 11, of Angliongto village in Davao City belts out a song during Monday’s SM Kapehan. He’s one of…