Wednesday’s transport strike led by Transmision-Piston paralyzed around 70 to 99% of the jeepney routes in Davao City as they oppose the impending Davao Bus System that will displace the old kings of the road.
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This Wednesday, December 27, most of the 6,000 jeepney drivers will join the transport strike to oppose the phaseout of jeepneys.
A national survey ranked Davao City fourth in terms of “competitiveness” in development. But some sectors said the city’s leaders must look beyond those figures and look at a holistic and “people-oriented” approach to development.
By DAVAO TODAY
Davao Today
Antonio “Dodong” Ortega Petalcorin, 56, married and treasurer of the Metro Davao Transport Cooperative was shot several times by an unidentified lone gunman, police authorities said.
Drivers’ group Transmision-Piston in Southern Mindanao, led by its secretary general Edil Gonzaga (middle), slams on Tuesday the Davao City…
Progressive party-lists under the Makabayan Coalition hold a meeting de avance Thursday in Davao City’s Freedom Park. Carlos Zarate, second…
By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today
And as the workers, farmworkers and peasants marched and braved the heat, with hundreds of red flags waving, they showed Aquino they are still a force to reckon with, undeterred despite the oppression they are experiencing from massive corporations who stole their lands and displaced them from their homes and livelihood.
