By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Pursuant to the mandate, Section 22 of the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers or Republic Act 4670 provides for compulsory medical examination “free of charge for all teachers before they take up teaching, and shall be repeated not less than once a year during the teacher's professional life.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Unlike most other waterfalls, not a river or any body of water exists above it. The water simply gushes out from rock formations in a cliff at the edge of a hill. A great portion of the cliff is covered with grasses resembling large green curtains.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today Indigenous tribes were displaced from their community in the government’s counter-insurgency programs that unleashed paramilitary groups in the hinterlands. When they returned to their lands, they found that settlers have applied their ancestral land for agrarian reform program and forestry projects.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today This ordinance comes after the city’s Anti-Smoking Task Force finds no study has come out that assures such new cigarettes are safe to the public.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today Previously, the Bureau of Investments has set a ceiling of a billion pesos (USD 23.9M) as capital in order for a firm to avail of incentives. Now, with its lowered threshold capital, the government attempts to solve problems in the agriculture industry, a move criticized by farmers groups.