I CAUGHT quite a bit of flak last week for my Tuesday quip that in Davao "illegal doesn't matter." Not true?

MONTHS ago, I bought a lot somewhere in Ma-a, which was sold to me by the widow of a friend. We went into the rigors of tracing the boundary lines and the "mohons" or the stone markers.

WE agree with government's decision to confer on national icon Manny Pacquiao the Order of Sikatuna award.

DIRECTOR'S CUT: (This portion features the thoughts of DepEd 11 Regional Director Susana Teresa B.

I THOUGHT I had written enough of Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao after his very impressive fight with Ricky Hatton whom he knocked down in the second round in March this year.

THE ber months are now here and once again our city faces one of its greatest enemy - flood. Though Davao City is known to be typhoon-free, it still cannot escape the problem about floods.

WHEN we see a child, we often think of innocence and ignorance. Innocence in being and ignorance in manner.

EID’L Adha is regarded as the festival of the Holy Sacrifice by Muslims. It is one of the most important events celebrated by our religion, Islam.

ON THE grounds that it advocates "sexual immorality" and " immoral doctrines," the Commission on Elections (Comelec) rejected Ang Ladlad for party-list accreditation that would have allowed it to join

THE Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was meant to transform society, as it recognizes that children are protagonists of their own development instead of being possessions of their parents a

IN SEVERAL sitios in the hinterlands of Davao, families, while impoverished and barely able to feed themselves, do not even have backyard gardens.

ON TUESDAY came the news that an enormous new mall - twice the size of Ecoland's SM Mall - is scheduled to start construction January next on the now extinct country club site.

NOT a few were shocked when Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo del Rosario declared that he is bolting the ruling coalition to join the Liberal Party.

"APPROXIMATELY 200 million children under the age of five in the developing world suffer from stunted growth as a result of chronic maternal and childhood under-nutrition," a press release from the Un

WOULD one consider the so-called whistle-blowers in the aborted NBN-ZTE deal heroes or heel?