This city has increased its scholarship slots to the deserving poor students and the city mayor urged them to maximize the scholarship assistance extended by the city.
President Rodrigo Duterte speaks at the launching of the Malasakit Programs for Visayas by unveiling the Malasakit Center dedication plate at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City on Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. (Photo from an RTVM video) CEBU CITY – Speaking before local chief executives from Visayas and Mindanao, President Rodrigo…
Nov. 28, Save Our Schools Network (SOS Network) reported that paramilitary group Alamara padlocked the Dulyan Campus of Salugpongan Ta’Tanu Igkanogon Community Learning Center Inc. (STTICLC) in sitio Dulyan, Palma Gil village, Talaingod Davao Del Norte. (Photo courtesy of Save our Schools Network-Southern Mindanao Region) Members of the 56th IBPA blocked the entry of school…
“The elderly are not exempt from the spate of attacks under the Duterte regime. Just this weekend, 61-year-old Margarita Valle was arrested by police operatives while at an airport in Cagayan de Oro, while 65-year-old Felipe Dacal-Dacal was gunned down within the vicinity of his own residence in Negros Occidental. Both have been active in…
By FR. WILFREDO DULAY* When the second Vatican Council reminded the Church of its essentially missionary character, it was actually pointing out its fundamental task of evangelizing a sinful situation, of proclaiming life and light over and above the forces of death and darkness. A good fifty years later, the Philippine Congress is just about…
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) reported a 6.5 magnitude earthquake with Eastern Samar as the epicenter at 1:37 PM today, April 23. The latest earthquake was felt in Catbalogan City, Leyte and Tacloban City, which bore the brunt of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 and the other typhoons and crop infestations that followed….
Indeed, the realizations from writing this article-series on reexamining Davao of the Past is to re-locate and recalibrate the self in the study of Asia. Geopolitically, Mindanao has been relegated to the periphery of the Philippine nation-state and consequently of the Southeast Asian region and the world. My only wish is to offer fresh insights…