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JOURNALISTS TRAIN HOW TO SHOOT
by Jess G Dureza/TIMES Publisher GUN TRAINING --Over the weekend, two groups of working media men and women gathered together coming from two opposite directions -- from Davao City in the north and General Santos City in the south. They travelled for about an hour and converged at a half-way location, the Seagull Resort shooting range [...]
CORONA’S IMPEACHMENT ANALYZED
By Jess G. Dureza I attended a very interesting session Saturday at Camp Aguinaldo officers club in Manila. The International Visitors Program (IVP) alumni foundation held a forum on the ongoing Chief Justice Corona’s impeachment proceedings. IVP is composed of past grantees of the US State Department’s study-tour [...]
RATIONALIZE, NOT KILL, MINING!
By Jess G. Dureza (NOTE: This is part of a series of articles written by the Times Publisher on mining after he revisited recently Mount Diwata or Diwalwal, hub of small scale mining in Compostela Valley Province.) “Let’s not kill mining. Instead, we should rationalize it.” The mining industry today is at a crossroad. Both [...]
Mount Diwata Revisited RAGS TO RICHES?
By Jess G. Dureza Mindanao Times, 2 February (NOTE: This is Part 2 of a series of articles of the author who recently revisited Mount Diwata, the hub of small scale mining in the south, popularly known as Diwalwal in Compostela Valley Province.) UNTOLD STORIES – It’s not all that glittery as gold. The “rags to riches” [...]
CRITICAL PERIOD FOR PEACE TALKS
PEACE TALKS UPDATE -- I read the joint statement issued by the GPH and MILF panels after last weeks's latest round of talks in Malaysia. As expected, it was positive and in general terms with motherhood statements. The media release however by GPH panel chair, Atty Marvic Leonen lamenting the "slow pace" of the talks revealed the [...]
DAVAO’S “PUNCH” ON MINING
By Jess G. Dureza LEADERSHIP EXAMPLE -- Just after boldly giving a "knock-out punch" on Davao City Mayor Sara's veto of the coal - fired plant and thereby allowing it and insuring the generation of additional power to the Mindanao grid in the future, I read in the newspapers that the same Davao city council "approved" on First [...]
MINING’S BIG FIGHT (PART 2)
By: Jess Dureza MEDIA SUMMIT -- After I wrote last week's mining story featuring how TVI Resource Development (Phil) Inc. is fighting the open pit ban ordinance of Zamboanga del Norte province, I was asked a few days ago to speak before a Mindanao media summit in General Santos City on the theme: "Environment Watch: Mindanao" Media [...]
MINING’S BIG FIGHT!
by jess g. dureza (The author, a journalist-lawyer, was former Chairman of the Mindanao Development Authority and Presidential Adviser for Mindanao during the administrations of President Ramos and President Arroyo.) DIPOLOG VISIT -- I was back in Dipolog City a few days ago. There's an interesting and important court case [...]
MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE TWO YEARS AGO (DATU UNSAY HANDOVER DAY)
MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE TWO YEARS AGO (DATU UNSAY HANDOVER DAY) By Jesus G. Dureza (NOTE: This is the last installment of a four-day series authored by Dureza on the Maguindanao massacre.) D-DAY, Nov.26 Before daybreak, without warning, government forces as planned took over and occupied the ARMM facilities in Cotabato City including [...]
MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE TWO YEARS AGO (DAY THREE)
MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE TWO YEARS AGO (DAY THREE) (Note: This is the 3rd installment of a 4-day series authored by Dureza, former presidential adviser on Mindanao who is now Publisher of the Mindanao TIMES, a daily newspaper and manages in the private sector Advocacy MindaNow Foundation.) DAY THREE , Nov 25 830 AM, I visited a [...]
