Mindanao biggest dollar-earning agricultural industry is (cavendish) bananas. At an average of one employee for every 1-1/2 hectares, not counting the administrative staff, the industry accounts for the biggest number of labor force. Last year’s January to November export revenues contributed $1.345-billion to the country’s gross domestic product. These are significant contributions to the country […]
Category: Opinion
LETTERS FROM DAVAO: Bato’s Waggly Tongue
By Jun Ledesma Because of simple math that theoritically extrapolated numbers of rare days of good conduct by an inmate that serves seven life sentences, the nation went agog when rapist and multiple murderer Antonio Sanchez was said to be a candidate for deliverance. It would have just been a conjecture except that neophyte Sen. […]
Our take on Gretch Diez
The harrowing experience of Gretchen Diez in the hands of people and mall management who should know better is deplorable, to say the least. We commiserate with her. We call for equality and respect among all, to borrow from Senator Tito Sotto, “homo sapiens”. (Pun intended) As the story unravelled, there were claims that what […]
LETTERS FROM DAVAO:STL and Lotto are legal fronts
By Jun Ledesma THE gospel in last Sunday Mass was about the total destruction Sodom and Gomorrah on account of the detestable things they do before the eyes of God. The story of the annihilation of these degenerate towns appeared not only in the Bible but also in the Koran. When Abraham heard of this […]
LETTERS FROM DAVAO: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Jun Ledesma In his State of the Nation Address, Pres. Rodrigo R. Duterte leafed through the pages of his performance report. Despite the magma of critical issues that were highlighted by organized coteries of critics that are out to discredit his administration, Duterte read through the pages among these were written in blood. He assured […]
