DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 July) — "We just did our job."
The Regional Avian Influenza Task Force merely implemented the rules provided by the country's protection program and placed public safety over anything else when it burned around 270 heads of wildlife stock smuggled into the city from Indonesia this week, an official of the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) of the DENR said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 July) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is conducting random drug testing in select national high schools here as part of the efforts of the Anti Drug Abuse Council of Davao City.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/12 July) — Mayor Rodolfo Gantuangco has vowed to observe non-partisanship in the coming elections for barangays and Sangguniang Kabataan elections.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 July) — How the Pimentel-Zubiri neck-to-neck race for the twelfth place in the senatorial derby will end depends on the outcome of the Supreme Court hearing tomorrow, Friday, July 13. Either Miguel Zubiri will be proclaimed or the Commission on Elections en banc will be ordered by the Court to allow Aquilino Pimentel III “to substantiate his claims that votes from Maguindanao had been manufactured and to question poll officials concerned”. (INQUIRER.net, July 10)
IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay (PBSP/12 July) — New hope for a better future has come to indigent children of Titay and Ipil in Zamboanga Sibugay and schoolchildren of Don Pablo Lorenzo Memorial High School (DPLMHS) in Zamboanga City, as concerted efforts to bring positive change have seen its realization.
DAVAO CITY (Suara Bangsamoro/12 July) – This is in response to the article: Poverty may push Moro women to terrorism, page A6 of the PDI, July 12, 2007 issue.
This is in reference to the immolation of 267 Indonesian parrots and birds on 10 July. The article I read stated that government officials were proud of their actions in keeping the Philippines free of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. I would find very little to be proud of in the burning of helpless, suffering animals when scientific evidence would support the fact that it was all unnecessary
The Human Security Act (HSA) is based on the notion that “the State must be held above all else. The State must wield absolute power, using everything to control the territory and population of a country.” It must protect itself at all costs even at the cost of its own citizens. Thus, anything and anyone, that threatens national interests in the eyes of the present dispensation is deemed as a foe, a terrorist, “an enemy of the state."
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/July 11,) – More than 50 golfers expressed their support to the Singh Golf for a Cause, which saw the tandem of Paul Larrabaster and Demyl Monedero emerging as a class A gross team champion over the weekend.
