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Cases against Maas dismissed |
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Monday, 16 February 2009 |
All seven cases filed against 13 members of the Mamamayan Ayaw sa
Aerial Spraying were dismissed after the City prosecutors Office in
Cagayan de Oro City found no sufficient evidence against the
complainants.
Asst. City Prosecutor Allan Radaza trashed the charges of direct
assault, illegal assemblies, resistance and disobedience, tumults and
other disturbances, unlawful utterances, alarm and scandal and unjust
vexation against the members of the anti-aerial spraying group of Davao
City.
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Thursday, 12 February 2009 |
RECENTLY I received a letter-comment on what I have written about the
Davao aerial spraying controversy. Since it was not sent as a letter to
the editor, I do not feel at liberty to disclose its authorship.
Nevertheless, I feel free to comment on some of the points raised.
In one of my columns I wrote that the issue in the controversy was
basically “a conflict between the right to property and the right to
life.” The letter writer characterized this as unfair and even
bordering on bad faith, stacking the cards before the members of the
high court.
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Davao ordinance against aerial spray gains support |
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Tuesday, 10 February 2009 |
MANILA. What was once perceived by legal practitioners in Davao City
as a parochial issue, the local ordinance banning aerial spraying of
pesticides as an agricultural practice has generated national
prominence as known environment and cause-oriented groups are poised to
support affected
residents in their fight at the Court of Appeals, which has recently
nullified the said law because multinational banana planters argued
about potential losses in their business.
The National Task Force Against Aerial Spray (NTFAAS), a multi-sectoral
coalition calling for a ban on the release of pesticide and chemicals
through aerial spraying, welcomes the declaration of support from more
than 60 member organizations of the EcoWaste Coalition during the first
National Workshop on Chemical Safety.
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City asks CA to reconsider decision on ban aerial spray case |
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Thursday, 05 February 2009 |
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DAVAO CITY. Davao City lawyers and the affected individuals who
intervened in the aerial spraying case between the city government and
the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association separately asked
the Court of Appeals to reconsider their decision thrashing the
constitutionality of the Davao ordinance that imposed a ban on the
chemical application practice.
In its motion for reconsideration (MR), the city lawyers headed by
Atty. Melchor Quitain, said the decision of the CA Justices in Cagayan
de Oro “is erroneous in that it utterly disregards prevailing
constitutional norms and statutory provisions, and in patent direct
collision with the evidences at hand and the attendant circumstances
surrounding the case.”
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