The Senate has approved on Second Reading amendments to the much-maligned Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act or Republic Act 9344. Crucified for its faults and for being a helpless tool to curb juvenile crime–actually the bottom line of its intent– RA 9344 is a faulty law that failed […]
Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte called on the government to make serious strides in its peace talks with the communist group and Moro separatists, in his speech at the holding of the Pamulak sa Kadayawan Floral Parade. The mayor made this point while saying he was thankful […]
On June 29 last year, a killer flood swept through four barangays in the southern part of the city. When the bodies were countered, there were 34 people killed many of them children. What lesson did we get from this “isolated tragedy”? Preparedness and […]
15,600-hectare concession awaiting okay of City Hall, NCIP BY ROGER M. BALANZA, A mining company has applied to explore gold and copper in about 15,660 hectares in Marilog District in Davao City. The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) in Region Eleven, in its website, said the application of […]
If the reactions were to be the basis as to where he should be exiled, Kabataan Partylist representative Raymond Palatino would be living in hell with Lucifer. Or maybe in Jolo to be beheaded by the fundamentalist Abu Sayyaf. The upstart young congressman stirred a hornets’ nest with […]
THEDURIANBEAT BANTAY KANG MALAY KA! We heard that publicist Ed Malay, the discredited public relations man behind the rigged surveys that had ex-Speaker Prospero Nograles winning a lopsided battle over then Vice Mayor Sara Duterte in the mayoral race in the 2010 elections in Davao City, has resurfaced […]
THEDURIANBEAT BY ROGER M. BALANZA Ex-House Speaker Prospero Nograles may now forget his claim he was cheated in the mayoral race in 2010 because in part ghosts and zombies crawled out of their graves on election day to vote for Mayor Sara Duterte. The Supreme Court said the […]
