Today’s View: The price of education

By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today

I don’t know if I can afford one if ever I will have kids in the future given the K+12 Law and the commercialization of education.  It is a sad and infuriating fact that education should liberate us from the quagmires of poverty but it is the one thing which drives us to despair knowing that our children and our children’s children may never get one.

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Special Representatives of the NDFP and GPH together with their respective consultants and personnel, and officials of the Royal Norwegian Government after the December 17-18,2012 meeting in the Hague, the Netherlands. (contributed photo by the NDFP International Information Office)

Calls to pursue GPH-NDFP peace talks, gaining ground

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today

“We should work for ‘more talk towards more peace,’” Bishop Calang urged, adding that amid the ongoing civil war, the more important thing to do is to “not lose hope, especially from the part of the government.”

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Peasant leader killed in Davao, 7th extrajudicial killing under Noynoy

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL A farmer was shot dead in front of his child inside his house in sitio Narra, barangay Paquibato Proper in Davao City. Naldo Labrador, 39, a member of Paquibato District Farmers’ Association (Padifa) and Farmers Association in Davao City- Kilusang Magbubukid sa Pilipinas (FADC-KMP) was killed Sept. 3.

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