Delisting Desap

An incoming Grade 3 student receives school supplies from the local government of Davao City after he queued along with other parents and children to ask for assistance at the City Mayor’s office on Thursday morning, May 31, 2018. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

His first artwork as a child was drawing cartoon figures using a ballpoint pen. As handy as it is economical, ballpen has been his frequent medium in his nearly forty-year career as a Davao artist. In his comeback into Davao’s art scene after 14 years, JC Gonzales goes back to these first passions.

A progressive labor group here blamed President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement tagging their group as a communist front for the intensified attacks against workers and their unions in Compostella Valley province.