A MESSAGE FROM THE MINDANAO PEOPLES CAUCUS

Stay the Course, Keep the Peace, Don’t  Bite the Bullet!
By PASTOR REU MONTECILLO
Chairperson
Mindanao Peoples Caucus
(A position paper presented during the Public Hearing of the Committee on the National Defense and Security joint with the Committee on Peace, Unification and Reconciliation of the Philippine Senate regarding the Proposed Senate Resolution No. 1281, “Expressing the Sense of [...]

Ruby Rose murderers charged

Ruby Rose kin still looking at Puno for help 

Six people, including the father-in-law of slain Ruby Rose Barrameda, have been charged with the murder of the former beauty queen who went missing for two years and her body later found stuffed inside a concrete-filled steel drum off Navotas.
This developed as relatives of the deceased continue [...]

Pala, Lintuan slays still unsolved

Police told: Bare results of probe on media slay
By ROGER M. BALANZA
The head of a government information agency in the Davao Region on Thursday said police need to bare results of its investigation into media killings in Davao City.
Efren Elbanbuena, regional director of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA), jested police probe on the killing of [...]

‘Freedom of Spit” now no-no in land of durian

Spitting now banned in Davao City
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Aping Baguio City, Davao City has passed an ordinance putting an end to the “freedom to spit” in public.
But unlike the aesthetic-oriented Baguio City ordinance that banned spitting to stop the beetle nut-chewing Igorots from indiscriminately spewing out into the streets the bloody-red beetle juice, the Davao [...]

Is Ocampo the commander of the New PeoplesArmy?

Alcover: Reds using Davao City for R&R
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Partylist Representative Pastor “Jun” Alcover pukes at the sight militant Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo all over Davao City acting like he has no sin against the Dabawenyos.
He and the other communists are using Davao City for their R&R, said Alcover, warning Ocampo continues to cook [...]

IS MIRRIAM AFTER RONNIE PUNO?

MYVIEWS
A close examination of the   ranting and the fuming  of Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago on the infomercials of Cabinet members would  reveal one dominant  tone and theme  –  DILG Secretary Ronnie Puno is her principal target . The rest of the Cabinet members  who ran infomercials may just be bit  players  in Miriam’s latest legislative [...]

Abaca weaving thriving in ComVal

THE province of Compostela Valley has institutionalized its abaca handicraft industry recently by establishing the Cooperative Handicraft Industry of Nabunturan (Chain).
Nabunturan, capital town of ComVal Province, has been a known producer of high-quality handicrafts from woven abaca fabric.
Some decades ago, Nabunturan, along with other towns in the undivided Davao del Norte, were heavy producers of [...]

Arguments against aerial spraying not validated

Businessmen want end to aerial spray debate
Defending use of aerial spraying of fungicides in banana plantations, Philippine business has called on government to undertake a thorough study to once and for all end debate on the alleged effect of the practice on people and the environment.
THE Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) made the [...]

Organic farming not possible in Cavendish bananas

PBGEA junks NGO invite on organic farming demo
The Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association has rejected an offer by a non-government organizations to observe and assist its two-hectare pilot farm that organically grows Cavendish banana on the argument that organic farming is not feasible in the export banana industry.
The rejection has drawn the ire of [...]

Davao City remembers 1987 DXRA MASSACRE

 The Tri-Media Organization for Peace and Alliance in Mindanao, Inc. (TROPA) spearheads today, August 27, 2009, the 22nd commemoration of the infamous DXRA massacre and the bloody attack on another radio station, DXMF-Bombo Radyo in Davao City.
            The commemoration carries the theme, “Responsible Journalism Towards a Free and Peaceful Society.”
            A mass at 6 a.m. [...]